Uganda: 'Made in Uganda' Kiira Vehicle is a Pipe Dream

11 December 2015
opinion

The announcement this week that a project initiated by Makerere University engineering students would move towards manufacturing cars by 2018 might have excited some Ugandans but others like Prof Morris Ogenga Latigo are not convinced as he argues in this article:

When Prof Sandy Stevens Tickodri-Togboa and his Makerere University engineering students first burst into the Ugandan innovation limelight with their Kiira Motors cars a few years ago, with President Yoweri Museveni being driven in one of them, Ugandans were naturally elated.

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