UGANDAN:Ronald Kulabako,a Ugandan journalist says, President Yoweri Museveni highly respects King Mswati and the two(2) Heads of State appears to have close relations such that, the President personally welcomed him at the Airport.
Speaking to this Swaziland News on Thursday evening, the Ugandan journalist said, President Museveni hardly welcome his guests at the Airport but,he normally sends his trusted Government officials to do so and then, usher the guests to the Presidential Residence.
“The President of Uganda rarely receives his guests at the Airport but he waits for them at the State House or Presidential Palace.But in the case of King Mswati, the President personally received him at the Airport. I think it goes to show the amount of respect he holds towards him”, said the Ugandan journalist.
The journalist said President Museveni and King Mswati addressed journalists on Wednesday and called for the strengthening of African markets and industrialization.
“They both agreed that for Africans to prosper, they must engage more on the manufacturing of goods and trading in the same goods into African trades. They basically called for stronger inter-African trade, stronger inter-African markets and stronger collaboration”, said the Ugandan journalist when speaking to editor Zweli Martin Dlamini on Thursday evening.
King Mswati and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni(pic: State photographer Simon Shabangu).