The motorcycles will be acquired at Shs 250,000 deposit

The National Boda Boda Riders’ Union has partnered with Honda to supply motorcycles to more than 200 riders across the country under a hire-purchase financing model.

According to Frank Mawejje, chairperson of the union, riders will be able to acquire motorcycles valued at Shs 7 million with an initial deposit of just Shs 250,000, followed by weekly payments of Shs 70,000 over two years.

The motorcycles will be distributed through boda boda Saccos in regions including Karamoja, Kisoro, Arua, and Kampala.

“We want to abolish the system where someone gives you a rabbit and you pay back a bull,” Mawejje said. “Our model ensures riders can afford motorcycles without being trapped in debt.”

He added that while the original financing programme focused on electric bikes, but their members requested that it be extended to fuel-powered motorcycles as well.

The boda boda industry is estimated to employ more than two million Ugandans, making it the country’s second-largest employer after agriculture and the largest source of jobs in urban areas.

Mawejje urged riders to join Saccos in their localities, saying the union works strictly through organised groups as part of efforts to formalise the sector and deliver long-term benefits rather than one-off handouts. Maria Namusoke Kamoga, managing director of Honda, described the partnership as a game-changer for both the transport and manufacturing sectors.

She said giving riders access to reliable and durable motorcycles would raise their income levels, enabling them to better support their families and contribute more meaningfully to the economy.

“We want to see real impact in income levels,” Kamoga said, noting that the collaboration also aligns with broader efforts to professionalise the sector.

She praised the union’s leadership for driving reforms at the grassroots. Dickson Ssempara, a boda boda rider in Gombe Division, welcomed the partnership, saying it would free riders from exploitation.

“Most boda boda riders have bosses who exploit them unfairly, and we end up getting nothing from our work,” he said. “This partnership will allow us to own our motorcycles at affordable prices.”

35 replies on “Boda Boda Union, Honda partner to supply motorcycles at Shs 250,000 deposit”

  5. “the business collaboration also aligns with broader efforts to professionalise the African public transport sector.” This sort of hope to growing modern industries in this country is very unfortunate indeed. Honda knows well how such infrastructure planning is all along wrong! Honda is an international transport company that comes from a country that is servicing public transport with the electric trains running at 200 miles per hour. Surely Japan is a small territory country compared to the vast continent of Africa. One wonders how many motorcycles Honda hopes to sell to Africa at hire purchase to professionalise African public transport infrastructure by the year 2050? At that time Japan’s rail train for the mass public transportation will be travelling at about 300 miles per hour!

  7. How much I’m leaving from bumble I’m walking into Kampala and Lucy from but it is a bridge is called about you I like the water bottle on how much charge for one week I’m ready to pay you contacting me my phone number is 0788-267-994 or Whatsapp number you can use that number thank you to contact it

  15. Littering Kampala with more mess. i hope they will do beyond the subsidies by providing crash helmets, sensitizing the riders

  19. It’s good because we ve done hire purchases with different companies but they sequence as so much so thanks for your generosity.

  29. I need one bike but am not among the district you provided above…
    So can I be considered?

  33. How much can I pay when in cash , not in instalments?
    And what is your nearest branch for someone in Sembabule?

  35. Hi,what about if I need it for personal business not boda am I also in position to get it.Am waiting for yo reply.Tnx

  41. This is a wonderful opportunity even to the youth most especially me who is also interested in joining the union for a better life

  45. Am very much pleased with the initiative and am ready to work with the team, as look forward to curb the unemployment problem among youth

  53. This is highly appreciated by we the boda riders making a one me acquire this machine it could be a one way of me raising my standardised living to this loosening standards of the nation due to money inflation

  57. It’s a great idea but I had some started requesting for 600k as the first deposit in nansana municipality so this must also be stopped earlier

  59. Unless if those so-called Boda Bodas will be used in Agriculture, or else Uganda is going to become a backward state!! The Boda Boda economy will not add value to this country, the ruling regime need to invest in sectors that will bring us foreign exchange. This crappy Boda business is a poverty trap!!

  67. It’s really good to hear about that huge, interesting and beneficial kind of partnership between the two companies. It is really going to be so unfair for not participating in the program.
    So for me I thank God for all that.
    Thanks so much for thinking positively to us.

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