Sudan to pay Gulu traders
Feb 18, 2010
Businesspeople, owed billions of shillings by the Southern Sudan (GOSS) government are to be paid.
By Chris Ocowun
Businesspeople, owed billions of shillings by the Southern Sudan (GOSS) government are to be paid.
The traders, who are registering with the office of the Gulu resident district commissioner (RDC), supplied the region with food and non-food items, but were never paid.
An announcement from Walter Ochora, the Gulu RDC, calls on all the businesspeople, who supplied goods and services to the GOSS and have not been paid, to register in his office not later than today for further actions.â€
Ochora said one of the traders supplied GOSS with goods and services worth sh3b, Kampala-based firm, Nile Valley Investment Company, is owed $5.3m (sh12b) and Upper Talanta $3.6m.
Ochora said GOSS in Juba had asked him to liaise with the Sudan consulate in Gulu to register and forward the names of the businesspeople it owes money.
“I am only registering those who supplied goods and services to GOSS and not those who have been doing business in the Sudan. Some traders were partly paid,while others were not paid at all.†he remarked.
The RDC added that some of the businessmen and women are already complaining that banks from where they got the loans to do the businesses with GOSS want to attach their property and sell to recover their money.
“They should continue with their businesses; I am optimistic that GOSS will pay them what they are demanding,†Ochora stated.
He said that the businessmen and women from Kenya who have already been paid by GOSS because their government stood behind them.
Ochora appealed to Ugandan government to support the businessmen and women who demanding for billions of money for the goods and services they supplied to GOSS and were not paid.
Businesspeople, owed billions of shillings by the Southern Sudan (GOSS) government are to be paid.
The traders, who are registering with the office of the Gulu resident district commissioner (RDC), supplied the region with food and non-food items, but were never paid.
An announcement from Walter Ochora, the Gulu RDC, calls on all the businesspeople, who supplied goods and services to the GOSS and have not been paid, to register in his office not later than today for further actions.â€
Ochora said one of the traders supplied GOSS with goods and services worth sh3b, Kampala-based firm, Nile Valley Investment Company, is owed $5.3m (sh12b) and Upper Talanta $3.6m.
Ochora said GOSS in Juba had asked him to liaise with the Sudan consulate in Gulu to register and forward the names of the businesspeople it owes money.
“I am only registering those who supplied goods and services to GOSS and not those who have been doing business in the Sudan. Some traders were partly paid,while others were not paid at all.†he remarked.
The RDC added that some of the businessmen and women are already complaining that banks from where they got the loans to do the businesses with GOSS want to attach their property and sell to recover their money.
“They should continue with their businesses; I am optimistic that GOSS will pay them what they are demanding,†Ochora stated.
He said that the businessmen and women from Kenya who have already been paid by GOSS because their government stood behind them.
Ochora appealed to Ugandan government to support the businessmen and women who demanding for billions of money for the goods and services they supplied to GOSS and were not paid.