Uganda is set to start production of teargas by the year 2024 after works to put up a mini-plant located in Nakasongola kicked off, media sources have reported.
In 2020, government through the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation entered a deal with Samuel Mugarura, a former Makerere University student at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity to develop his teargas prototype to standard and start manufacturing the product.
Sources familiar with the development but didn’t want to be named have said that currently, the works are at commercialization level, meaning the teargas chemical composition has now been developed for industrial production and soon equipment will be imported and set up as part of the process of the plant set up to make Uganda the first teargas plant in East and Central Africa. END
