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Museveni tells Investors to Make Electric Car Batteries in Uganda

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November 29, 2022
Museveni tells Investors to Make Electric Car Batteries in Uganda

President Yoweri Museveni delivers his remarks while meeting ARISE Integrated Industrial Platforms (ARISE IIP) members and Uganda government Officials at the State House Entebbe on 29th November 2022. Photo by PPU/Tony Rujuta.

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President Museveni has said that Uganda has all the raw materials that can spur the development of her automotive industry.

While meeting a group of investors from ARISE Integrated Industrial Platforms (ARISE IIP), a Pan-African developer and operator of world-class industrial parks at State House Entebbe on Tuesday, the President said that Uganda is moving forward in building an independent, integrated and self-sustaining national economy which is point number five (5) of the NRM’s 10 points program developed in the 1970s when they were fighting Idi Amin.

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President Yoweri Museveni poses for a photo with Gagan Gupta CEO and Founder of ARISE IIP after a meeting at the State House Entebbe on 29th November 2022. Photo by PPU/Tony Rujuta.

“That has been our line and we have been struggling here because it was not understood, it was being resisted,” H.E Museveni said, adding that Uganda’s highly educated population which has been buried in a slave mentality has started waking up into serious manufacturing to develop the automotive industry through the production of electric vehicles.

He now wants investors to concentrate on making electric car batteries which Uganda is still importing.

President Yoweri Museveni poses for a photo with the Director Regional Commissions, New York Office at United Nations Rosa Malango after a meeting at the State House Entebbe on 29th November 2022. Photo by PPU/Tony Rujuta.

“Because our people are making electric motorcycles and vehicles (buses, pickups etc., we are still importing batteries. I want to make electric car batteries here using these raw materials,” the President noted.

He said his government stopped exporting unprocessed minerals like copper, gold, lead, lithium, ion, and graphite some of which are important components of car batteries and other items like computers and telephones.

Director Regional Commissions, New York Office at United Nations Rosa Malango marking her remarks during a meeting with ARISE Integrated Industrial Platforms (ARISE IIP) members and Uganda government Officials while meeting President Yoweri Museveni at the State House Entebbe on 29th November 2022. Photo by PPU/Tony Rujuta.

Gen Museveni welcomed the group led by Maama Rosa Malango, an Economic Development Expert and informed them that Uganda has a lot of investment opportunities.

“But we had captured a narrow portion of the spectrum because we were struggling on our own. We had only succeeded in a few like milk processing, soap making, textiles, timber and forest products etc., but the spectrum is still there. So, I welcome you,” he said.

ARISE Integrated Industrial Platforms (ARISE IIP) members arriving to meet President Yoweri Museveni at the State House Entebbe on 29th November 2022. Photo by PPU/Tony Rujuta.

ARISE Integrated Industrial Platforms (ARISE IIP), currently present in ten (10) African countries like Benin (GDIZ), Togo (PIA), and Gabon (GSEZ), identifies opportunities in commercial and industrial value chains across Africa, and conceive, finance, builds, and operates the necessary infrastructure, playing a catalytic role in supporting countries to transition to an industrial economy.

The Chief Executive Officer and Founder of ARISE IIP, Gagan Gupta, informed the President that they expect to have created 100,000 jobs through their developed textile industry in less than 4 years of their existence in Benin which is Africa’s largest exporter of cotton.

Gagan Gupta CEO and Founder of ARISE IIP, Partner at ATIF marking his remarks during a meeting with ARISE Integrated Industrial Platforms (ARISE IIP) members and Uganda government Officials while meeting President Yoweri Museveni at the State House Entebbe on 29th November 2022. Photo by PPU/Tony Rujuta.

The meeting was attended by among others, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Development Rose Nankabirwa, the Minister of State for Mineral Development Peter T. Lokeris, Hon Francis Mwebesa who is the Minister of Trade, industry and cooperatives, Senior Presidential Assistant Hon Mary Karooro Okurut and officials from Uganda Investment Authority, Uganda Free Zones Authority and National Planning Authority.

President Yoweri Museveni receives a gift from Gagan Gupta CEO and Founder of ARISE IIP after a meeting at the State House Entebbe on 29th November 2022. Photo by PPU/Tony Rujuta.
President Yoweri Museveni receives a gift from Ms Rachelle Yayi representative of ATIF after a meeting at the State House Entebbe on 29th November 2022. Photo by PPU/Tony Rujuta.
President Yoweri Museveni in a group photo with ARISE Integrated Industrial Platforms (ARISE IIP) members and Uganda government Officials at attend a meeting at the State House Entebbe on 29th November 2022. Photo by PPU/Tony Rujuta.
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