DAILY NEWS Reporter
According to a press statement issued by
the Directorate of Presidential Communications, Dr Magufuli made the
assurance in Kampala during his talks with the Ugandan leader.
He arrived in Uganda to attend President
Museveni’s inauguration slated for Thursday. At the Entebbe
International Airport, he was received by Ugandan Works and Transport
Minister John Byabagambi and Uganda’s High Commissioner to Tanzania, Ms
Dorothy Samali Hyuha.
Uganda’s Assistant Inspector-General of
Police Andrew Felix Kawesi was also present at the airport to receive
the Tanzanian leader. Dr Magufuli is popular in Uganda for the radical
changes he has embraced in Tanzania, including spearheading the fight
against corruption, since he took over office late last year.
He joins two other dignitaries, King
Letsie III of Lesotho and the Prime Minister of Swaziland, Dr Barnabas
Dlamini, who arrived in Uganda on Tuesday evening. He then headed to
State House Entebbe for an official welcoming ceremony.
This is the second time for Dr Magufuli
to travel outside the country since becoming president. He first
travelled to Rwanda last month. President Museveni recently endorsed his
country’s decision to construct the pipeline through Tanzania during
the 13th Northern Corridor Integration Projects (NCIP) Summit in
Kampala, which was also attended by President Paul Kagame and Uhuru
Kenyatta of Rwanda and Kenya, respectively.
The envisaged pipeline through Tanzania
will be of benefit not only to Uganda and Tanzania but other countries
in the region such as Kenya, South Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi and the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Officials from Uganda and Tanzania
convened for the first time in Tanzania last month to discuss work plan
for the development of the proposed 8.7 trillion/-crude oil export
pipeline.
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