Lesotho to purchase 20 Kiira Motors buses, Museveni pledges five more
President Museveni welcomed the proposal and directed Uganda’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in charge of Regional Affairs, Haruna Kyeyune Kasolo, to work with Kiira Motors Corporation to facilitate the purchase.
In his message to President Museveni, Prime Minister Matekane expressed his government’s interest in purchasing 20 buses manufactured by Kiira Motors Corporation to address transportation needs in the Kingdom of Lesotho.
STATE HOUSE - The Kingdom of Lesotho is set to purchase 20 buses from Uganda’s locally owned vehicle manufacturer, Kiira Motors Corporation, in a move expected to strengthen bilateral relations and promote Uganda’s growing automotive industry.
The development was discussed today (November 10) at State House, Entebbe, during a meeting between President Yoweri Museveni and Lesotho’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Relations, Justice Limpho Tau, who visited Uganda as a special envoy carrying a message from the country’s Prime Minister, Samuel Ntsokoane Matekane.
President Museveni welcomed the proposal and directed Uganda’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in charge of Regional Affairs, Haruna Kyeyune Kasolo, to work with Kiira Motors Corporation to facilitate the purchase.
President Museveni welcomed the proposal and directed Uganda’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in charge of Regional Affairs, Haruna Kyeyune Kasolo, to work with Kiira Motors Corporation to facilitate the purchase.
Matekane also requested President Museveni to support Lesotho with an additional five buses. The President accepted the request and pledged to donate the five buses.
Matekane also requested President Museveni to support Lesotho with an additional five buses. The President accepted the request and pledged to donate the five buses.
This brings the total number of Kiira Motors buses expected to be supplied to Lesotho to 25, comprising 20 to be purchased by the Lesotho government and five to be donated by President Museveni.
Last year, a Kiira Motors team travelled 13,000km across six countries by road to Cape Town, South Africa, in their Kayoola electric bus as part of the move to market its vehicles across South African countries.
The Kiira Vehicle manufacturing plant construction started in 2019 up to 2024 when all vehicle production systems were fully installed and manufacturing started in March 2025 by Kiira Motors Corporation with an initial investment of $120m.
The company has a production prospect of 2,500 vehicles (both petrol and diesel) in the medium term, 5,000 in the long term, and a 10,000 annual production by 2030.