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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>There were two kinds of smoke billowing in Kakira Sugar Estate on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

From the chimneys, the sugar mill let out thick smoke as if to reassure whoever cares that the ugly smoke billowing a few metres from the mill would not affect anything.<\/p>\n

The ugly smoke was smoldering from what was the first floor but had been reduced to a rubble after it caved in under the wrath of a massive fire that lasted several hours on Friday evening.<\/p>\n

Mr Mayur Madhvani and his joint managing directors told journalists at Kakira on Saturday that Kakira\u2019s operations would continue normally, but admitted the company had incurred huge losses in the fire.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have various separate stores, like in agriculture, factory and others,\u201d Mr Madhvani said before his team of managing directors that also included Surundra and Kamlesh, as well as Jim Kabeho, left without fielding questions.<\/p>\n

Public concern immediately after news of the fire came out was that sugar prices, which has strangely remained stable \u2013 selling for between Shs3,200 and Shs3,400 a kilo \u2013 would join the fuels, soaps and rice in commodity price rise competition.<\/p>\n

But if the concern is valid, Kakira, the largest private-sector investor in the sugar industry in Uganda, whose market share is 60 percent, did not give any indication of one.<\/p>\n

The assurance<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cWe assure the general public and stakeholders that the operations of Kakira will continue and the production and all other products of Kakira will not be affected,\u201d Mr Kabeho said.<\/p>\n

It was a sleepless Friday evening for the Madhvanis and a busy Saturday as the directors hopped from one meeting after the other to discuss arguably the biggest tragedy and single incident losses the company has faced since its rehabilitation in 1985.<\/p>\n

The fire, whose cause Mr Kabeho said in a statement he read out was not yet established, started shortly before 8pm in the supplies department, the biggest utilities store in Kakira. The general supply store is where virtually everything procured for running the operations of Kakira is kept.<\/p>\n

From mechanical equipment and spare parts, to electrical equipment and computers, and fridges to stationary, everything was destroyed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe walls of the building stood the test of the fire,\u201d Mr Kabeho said. \u201cThe basement cellar containing heavy spares was less damaged, thanks to prompt efforts from all the teams in action.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police said Kiira regional fire tenders, and the beef up from Busoga East region, private companies such as Nile Agro and the fire fighting services of the factory effectively put out the fire, prevented it from spreading to the Kakira petrol station, behind stores and the sugar stores.<\/p>\n

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