Plan to revive Jinja industries in offing

Mar 10, 2006

TOURISM, trade and industry minister Daudi Migereko has said the Government has a grand plan to set up new industries in Jinja and revive collapsed ones in a bid to fight unemployment.

By Charles Kakamwa and Donald Kiirya
TOURISM, trade and industry minister Daudi Migereko has said the Government has a grand plan to set up new industries in Jinja and revive collapsed ones in a bid to fight unemployment.

Migereko said the Government was also planning to revive the Uganda Development Corporation (UDC), the company charged with creation of industries.

“The president instructed me to revive all factories that collapsed in Jinja and set up new ones. This is geared at creating employment opportunities and boosting trade within and outside the country,” he said.

Migereko said a number of industries would be established on land between the newly-constructed BIDCO oil company in Masese and Bugembe trading centre on the Jinja-Iganga highway.

The industries to be set up here are mainly for processing coffee, tea, horns, ivory and garments production.

Migereko said several local and foreign investors had also shown interest in putting up projects along the River Nile.

“We have reserved the area from the former Jinja sailing club in the municipality to Itanda falls in Butagaya subcounty for construction of modern hotels, most of them five-star,” he said

Migereko said some of the investors include Kampala businessman Sudhir Ruparelia, who is set to construct a hotel near Bujagali falls, Madhvani and others from South Africa, Malaysia and the Netherlands, some of whom have already been allocated land. Factories that were recently revived include Uganda Grain Milling, the East African Steel Corporation, Chillington for hoes, one for leather tanning, PAPCO and Mulbox, which manufacture paper products.

Migereko said his ministry was in advanced stages of reviving Mulco textile factory.
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