Kampala — JAPANESE should invest in Uganda's public transport, the Uganda Investment Authority's (UIA) executive director, Dr. Maggie Kigozi, has suggested.

"The transport industry has a lot of potential that has yet not been fully exploited.

"Public transport operators who were contracted by Kampala City Council, the Uganda Taxi Operators and Drivers Association (UTODA), are rendering poor services and not paying their dues," Kigozi said.

She was meeting a Japanese delegation from the Joint-Mission for Promoting Trade and Investment to Uganda led by the parliamentary foreign affairs vice-minister, Nobukide Minorikawa, at Hotel Africana in Kampala recently.

"Investment in the transport and logistics sectors can be in operating buses, trucks, railways, airlines, water transport, industrial parks and export processing zones," Kigozi said.

Other sectors with investment potential, she said, include manufacturing, infrastructure, agriculture, energy, mining, petroleum, tourism and education.