Uganda’s Waste Management Conundrum, President Museveni Meets CEO of BEEAH Group, Discuss Possible Investment Opportunities

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President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, who is in the United Arab Emirates, on a working visit and to also attend the 4th edition of the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2025 which started on Monday this week, today held a side meeting with Khaled Al Huraimel, an investor based in Sharjah who expressed interest in the management of waste in Uganda.

Khaled, the group CEO and Vice Chairman Beeah Company informed President Museveni of their 15 years’ experience in the field and the success story of managing waste in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other countries, on a Public, Private Partnership basis.

He further disclosed the potential of constructing a plant that will generate electricity to be sold at a reasonable price and will additionally create employment for the people of Uganda.

President Museveni assured Khaled of the government’s support, pointing out that electricity is the lifeline of the economy.

“These are the Doctors I have been looking for to combat the disease of waste products in our country. I take electricity as the bone marrow. If you get a problem with the bone marrow, the whole body will be in trouble, you will get leukemia and it is very dangerous,” the President said.

He, however, urged the investor to mind the cost of electricity to the consumer per unit, stressing that the cutoff point should be US$ 8 cents and below, of which Mr. Khaled replied in the affirmative.

Uganda’s Capital Kampala and its Metropolitan area are currently struggling with the challenge of waste management which last year left 35 people confirmed dead when the Kiteezi waste land fill buried the surrounding homesteads and consequently leading to the dismissal of the former KCCA top leadership including Dorothy Kisaka, David Luyimbaazi and Daniel Okello who until then was working as the director Public Health.

To date, KCCA is still grappling with tonnes of waste generated every day from the Kampala with no substantive dumping site after all the surrounding authorities disassociated themselves from this unresolved challenge of the City but with such engagements which the president has initiated, if finally become fruitful, the long unresolved waste management problem may come to pass.

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