H.E President Y.K. Museveni launched the the second armored vehicle manufacturing and assembly plant. This is a partnership between the National Enterprise Corporation (NEC) and the Streit Group. The plant was commissioned in Nakasongola.

The plant is to produce vehicles for Uganda’s military, police VIPs and Regional requirements. The partnership between Uganda People Defence Force- UPDF’s  NEC and Streit Group will benefit Uganda in many other ways including technology transfer, local capacity building among others. The President also emphasised that this will lead to import substitution where importation of armored vehicles will become history.