Uganda, Feb. 24 -- President Museveni has allowed a proposal by the Chinese Tian Tang Group to re-develop Luzira Prison into a five-star hotel, the presidency confirmed on Saturday.

This followed a July 10, 2022 letter in which Museveni directed internal affairs minister Maj Gen Kahinda Otafiire to negotiate with the group, with the Ugandan leader emphasizing that he "was in full support of the proposal."

"I have received a letter from Tian Tang Group proposing to re-develop the Luzira Prison into a five star Hotel, with a conference center- and relocate the prison, at their cost, to another place in the interior on a land identified by the government," Museveni wrote in the letter.

"I totally support this idea. Therefore, you are dire...