Envoy hails King Fahad project

Dec 31, 2004

THE former secretary general of the Muslim World League, Dr. Abdullah Omar Nasseef, met President Yoweri Museveni at his Rwakitura home in Mbarara on Thursday.

By Shaban Halima
and Yasin Kironde


THE former secretary general of the Muslim World League, Dr. Abdullah Omar Nasseef, met President Yoweri Museveni at his Rwakitura home in Mbarara on Thursday.

He was accompanied by Fahad Utaib, an official from the Saudi Arabian ministry of finance, Sheikh Fahad Asshathn, the principal director of overseas NGOs and officials from the Saudi Arabian embassy in Uganda.

Nasseef was in the country for the annual Islamic University council meeting and to oversee the King Fahad Plaza project.

He said the management committee had properly handled the King Fahad Plaza project. “It is fully occupied and the proceeds have been channelled to the right recipients,” Nasseef said.

He pledged US$80,000 (sh140m) from the King Fahad Foundation towards a generator for the plaza to alleviate load shedding.

He also pledged US$50,000 (sh87.5m) to the university.

Addressing the press in Kampala on Wednesday, Nasseef commended the committee for ensuring that the vision of the project was realised.

The project, which finances the university, was a donation by King Fahad of Saudi Arabia to boost the development of the Islamic university in Mbale.

Nasseef said the university had offset its debt burden, improved infrastructure and would establish a faculty of medicine at the Kampala branch in the 2005/2006 academic year. “The faculty of medicine will start with a nursing school at the Kampala branch, paramedics and with time, it will grow into a fully-fledged medical school,” Nasseef said.

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