Ugandan businesses urged to exploit Namibian opportunities
Mar 01, 2024
Mbumba indicates that his country has open opportunities for Ugandan business people to exploit and that business is central to deepening commercial diplomacy, and Africa is yearning to develop.
The team, according to a statement, was in Namibia to attend the burial of Namibian President Hage Geingob who died in power aged 82 recently. (Courtesy Photos)
Nelson Kiva
Journalist @New Vision
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Namibian President Nangolo Mbumba has urged Ugandan businesswomen and men to exploit opportunities in his country.
Mbumba indicates that his country has open opportunities for Ugandan business people to exploit and that business is central to deepening commercial diplomacy, and Africa is yearning to develop.
The president made the call as he hosted a delegation of Ugandan business people, led by Namibian honorary consul in Uganda Godfrey Kirumira, to a dinner at the Namibian State House.
“Our decision to appoint Kirumira, a renown business person in Uganda, as our honorary consul was deliberate to support the efforts of growing trade and investment between our two countries,” he said before he asked Kirumira to mobilise more Ugandan business people and professionals to visit Namibia and exploit possible opportunities.
The team, according to a statement, was in Namibia to attend the burial of Namibian President Hage Geingob who died in power aged 82 recently.
Geingob who succumbed to cancer in the hospital on February 4, 2024, was buried last week at a mausoleum at Heroes' Acre on the outskirts of the capital amidst an outpouring of tribute to a man hailed as a nation-builder and a pan-Africanist.
His deputy, Nangolo was subsequently sworn in as his successor soon afterwards.
Mbumba, while leading the Namibian delegation to Uganda for the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the G77 summits called for deepened cooperation with Uganda across the trajectory.
“I do not know why I have been waiting to come to Uganda for such a long time. Today, I am here to meet the beautiful people of Uganda. Many communities in Namibia will claim that they came from a land full of Lakes and waters and they claim we came from here,” he said.
He added: “It is truly wonderful that we Africans are beginning to appreciate other African people and other African countries. We have to learn how to cooperate, how to do business together, how to exploit our mineral resources together, and how to process them at home before we send them to other people. If we don’t unite, other countries and other regions and other continents are moving very first in a new direction,” Mbumba added.
Kirumira after returning to the country on Wednesday remarked: “I have been asked to mobilise as many business people to go to Namibia to discuss trade and investment opportunities with their counterparts and soon, a big delegation will be heading there”.
President Yoweri Museveni was represented by his special envoy and former Prime Minister Dr Ruhakana Rugunda.
Rugunda was accompanied by Uganda's High Commissioner to Southern Africa Paul Amoru and foreign affairs permanent secretary Vincent Bagiire, among other officials.
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