Speaking to journalists, Tumusiime noted that the exterior structure, a standard fire station, water source, backup power systems, air conditioning systems, storage areas, and administration are complete. He says this will be followed by minimal technical fittings.
Jinja Storage Terminal (JST) which has been managed under a Joint Venture Partnership between One Petroleum Limited (OPL) consortium and Uganda National Oil Company Limited (UNOC) will now fully be under management and operations by UNOC effective 23rd December 2022.
Earlier on Tuesday evening, the Jinja Resident City commissioner, Darius Nandinda told URN that they covered a meeting with the two contestants, who unanimously agreed to vote from a neutral venue outside the market premises.
A team of UNBS inspectors sealed off the maize mills on Wednesday after the operators failed to present their operating licenses and clearance from local authorities.
The dozens of residents who converged within the contested land say that the area is surrounded by schools and homes and any attempt to establish a sugarcane plantation would make it a hub for criminals.
In explanation for the city's worrying road status, the Jinja city spokesperson, Rajab Kiito says that the city lacks funds to address the challenge of poor roads, but they have planned to refurbish 3.5 kilometers of roads, at a cost of 16.5 billion Shillings this financial year, through funding from the USMID project.
Gabula said that Busoga kingdom has a bottom-top approach system, of rallying communities to involve themselves in economic transformation initiatives, from the village clan heads all through to the royal chiefs’ cabinets.
According to Nabwiso, Queen Elizabeth traveled along with tourists and investors who returned after her visit to set up factories mainly for ginning cotton and producing textiles. “Her visit earned Jinja town then, world-class publicity across international media outlets, which attracted several investors to the area hence earning its name of the industrial town of Uganda and East Africa," he told URN in an interview.
Controversy arose when Parliament called for the cancellation of the event, which, according to legislators, is a forum for promoting immorality. Although Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja says the event has been cleared to take place under strict guidelines, the Speaker of Parliament Anita Among has insisted on the cancellation.
The campaign involves sensitization of communities in safeguarding electricity lines, on the newly amended electricity act, with emphasis on the penalties involved.
Musenero stressed that over the years, scientists have developed affordable technologies aimed at mechanizing the agricultural sector and boosting the quality of farmers’ yields, but they are inaccessible to the target beneficiaries.
While attending the launch of Busoga’s 2022/2023 annual development plan at the Jinja city’s based Civil Service college, the leaders said that an increase in the funds will foster the quickening of poverty eradication processes.
Isaac Masanga, a fisherman says that it took a long time for them to understand that the operational licenses run from January to December. He explains that since most fishermen paid mid-last year owing to the financial challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, they were prompted to think that the same would expire in July 2022, which partly explains the delayed renewal of the licenses.
The Bank of Uganda Acting Governor, Michael Atingi-Ego challenged Ugandans to embrace electronic payment systems throughout their transactions, so as to increase business competitiveness within their areas of enterprise specialization.
Speaking to journalists on Saturday, the residents who use part of the land for distilling waragi, say they will lose their source of livelihood if the authorities evict them. Nelson Opoka is one of the affected residents. According to Opoka, he inherited the land from his late predecessors in 2003 and decided to construct rental units housing 12 tenants.
They authprities say that illegal commuter taxi stages have since contributed to traffic congestion within the Jinja city’s central business district, which is frustrating the smooth operability of other enterprises.
