{"id":2837,"date":"2018-01-26T13:11:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T10:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2018-01-26T13:11:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T10:11:39","slug":"president-museveni-meets-egyptian-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/26\/president-museveni-meets-egyptian-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"President Museveni Meets Egyptian Investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Yoweri Museveni has today met a delegation of prospective Egyptian investors, led by the new Egyptian Ambassador to Uganda, Mohamed Tarek Saliam, who are interested in establishing a new electricity distribution company and factory that manufactures wires, meters and transformers.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting that took place today at State House, Entebbe, President Museveni welcomed their plans and informed them that since Uganda has a high purchasing power, they have to make electricity cheap for Ugandans.<\/p>\n<p>He said that electricity should go for five cents per unit for hotels and manufacturing enterprises and nine cents per unit for entertainment places like discos.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian investors, who assured the President that they would finance the project themselves, were promised an industrial site of three square miles where they would site their factory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Yoweri Museveni has today met a delegation of prospective Egyptian investors, led by the new Egyptian Ambassador to Uganda, Mohamed Tarek Saliam, who are interested in establishing a new electricity distribution company and factory that manufactures wires, meters and transformers. During the meeting that took place today at State House, Entebbe, President Museveni welcomed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":2838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[324,31,119],"class_list":["post-2837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-egypt","tag-featured","tag-uganda-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2839,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions\/2839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}