URA seizes church spares

Oct 23, 2006

THE Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) is still holding spare parts for rehabilitating St. Paul’s Cathedral Namirembe pipe organ.

THE Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) is still holding spare parts for rehabilitating St. Paul’s Cathedral Namirembe pipe organ.

Samuel Balagadde reports that the spares were seized by the URA customs at Entebbe Airport pending a tax waiver clearance from the Government.

The cathedral’s dean, the Rev. Can. Augustine Magala, told Christians recently that the spares attracted sh6m worth of taxes that the Government pledged to waive.

The organ was made in 1930 by Positive Organs Company and reconstructed at the cathedral by Alfred E. Davis & Sons in 1952.

The rehabilitation by Peter Wells from the United Kingdom has been in three phases. The first was in 1999, then in February 2006 and the current repairs, which will involve fitting 756 pipes imported from Germany at sh19m. Peter Wells is already in Uganda.

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