The National Enterprise Corp (NEC) housed in Kampala's Industrial Area was founded in 1989, three years after President Yoweri Museveni's arrival in power, with the mandate to serve as the commercial arm of the Ugandan People's Defence Force (UPDF) in key areas of the Ugandan economy. Since taking over the helm of the conglomerate in 2015, Gen. James Mugira has turned the financially-strained institution around. A lawyer by training who studied at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom,