KAMPALA: The National Resistance Movement (NRM) Central Executive Committee member Robert Mwesigwa Rukaari, has invited ministers and legislators in the United Kingdom (UK) to come to Uganda and enjoy its natural beauty.
Rukaari who is the chairperson of the NRM Entrepreneurs League and MP for Mbarara City North told the politicians in London on Monday Uganda is the best tourism destination in Africa.
Remember the former PM of UK, Winston Churchill once wrote: “For magnificence, for variety of form and colour, for profusion of brilliant life — bird, insect, reptile, beast — for vast scale — Uganda is truly ‘the Pearl of Africa.”
“Honourable members, if you want hospitality and tourism, the biggest number of gorillas in the world are found in Uganda,” Rukaari told the legislators who had gathered at the House of Commons (Westminster) for the UK-Dubai business meeting.
The world has about 1,063 gorillas and of these, 457 are found in Uganda.
The meeting was chaired by Hon Virendra Sharma, the MP for Ealing Southall, with Chris Philp, the minister for policing and MP for Croydon South as chief guest.
The meeting was attended by Uganda’s High Commissioner to UK, Nimisha Madhvani, Consul Jaffer Kapasi, consul-general of Uganda in UK based in Leicester.
“We have Lake Victoria, River Nile, mountains, national parks and more so Ugandans who are so welcoming,” Rukaari told the audience that included investors from India and UAE.
The meeting came at the end of the UK-Uganda business summit who took place in London last week.
The 13th edition of the summit, which sought to grow trade between UK and Uganda was convened under the theme, Unlocking Trade, Investment, and Export Potential.