Uganda, Jan. 29 -- Hosting the 19th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the G77+ China summits came with a lot of expectations.

The pressure, specifically, for the government, to pull them off effortlessly, was high.

Years prior to the events, a plan was hitched to build a state-of-art facility to host the visitors after the government realised other facilities in the country were not up to standard.

With time running out fast, the government partnered with businessman Sudhir Ruparelia to build a convention centre valued at Shs147 billion.

The government through Uganda Development Corporation (UDC) signed joint venture and shareholder agreements with Mr Ruparelia to build the facility in August 2022.

The 3,800-seater convention centre at ...