It is the only ammunition production firm that deals in Kenya’s weapons specifically the small arms.
The Kenya Ordnance Factories Corporation (KOFC) is a state corporation established under legal notice No. 125 of 23rd July 1997 to manufacture arms and bullets for the country.
Situated in Eldoret, KOFC manufactures and sells quality small arms ammunition and related products for the nation.
Among its customers are the Kenya armed forces, all Kenyan security agencies, all approved licensed arms dealers in the country, approved friendly governments, approved international bodies, strategic partners, industrialists, farmers, millers and the public.
There are engineers at the KOFC who make the Kenya Army Ordnance Corps (KAOC).
The main objective of KAOC is to sustain the Kenya Army through acquisition, warehousing and distribution of ammunition stores so as to support operations both in peacetime and wartime.
They mainly make part of the non-combat staff in KDF, manufacturing bullets to be used by the combat forces but the KAOC themselves also get access to use of the ammunition.
