{"id":40260,"date":"2022-11-14T21:22:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T21:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/atiak-sugar-investors-demand-govt-action-on-rampant-fires"},"modified":"2022-11-14T21:32:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T21:32:17","slug":"atiak-sugar-investors-demand-govt-action-on-rampant-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/atiak-sugar-investors-demand-govt-action-on-rampant-fires","title":{"rendered":"Atiak sugar investors demand govt action on rampant fires"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The lead investor of Atiak Sugar Factory has written to the authorities in Kampala seeking immediate government action to salvage the project after a fire reportedly destroyed more than 2,000 acres of the plantation.<\/p>\n

The northern Uganda-based agricultural project jointly owned by the government, the community members and a private investor, has over the years been a target of alleged arson with successive fires destroying thousands of acres of mature sugarcane.<\/p>\n

In a November 8 letter addressed to the State Minister for Trade, Industry and Cooperatives, Mr David Bahati, Ms Amina Hersi Moghe, the CEO of Horyal Investments Holding Company Ltd, which has co-invested in the project with government, makes recommendations which she says should be acted on with urgency.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is to inform you that we had a fire outbreak in our sugar plantation from yesterday evening (Monday last week) and this is really putting our business at a loss,\u201d the letter seen by Daily Monitor, reads in part, adding: \u201cRemember our factory has been shut down for almost six months due to lack of raw materials and high operation costs which resulted from fire outbreaks that happened earlier on. With this background, I request for urgent collaborative actions with the relevant government authorities to intervene because my business needs to run in a secure environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Moghe urges the government to limit or outrightly prohibit loitering by people or the burning of charcoal in forested areas next to the plantation. She requests that the government \u201cadopts a policy of receding borderlines to clear forest vegetation for at least 30 metres from the fire outbreak.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe relevant government agencies must also be involved in curbing these continuous outbreaks and provide a long term solution as we must protect investments whether private or public through a government public, private partnership,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

On the company\u2019s part, Ms Moghe proposes \u201cthe company to have scrapped firebreaks to keep the fire from creeping across the firebreak and escaping from the burning unit.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also proposes the company to have early warning systems through periodic monitoring and surveillance and raise incident reports.<\/p>\n

Efforts to reach out to minister Bahati were futile as his known phone number was off by press time.<\/p>\n

Ms Damalie Nachuha, the Aswa River Region Police Commander, confirmed the incident at the Atiak sugar project. She said authorities immediately commenced investigations and arrested three people.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne was found with a lighter, cigarettes and some narcotic drugs. The other two were herding. We were able to impound them and the total number of animals is 126 head of cattle,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cWe are charging them of various offences. We also suspect they could have set the fire on the section of the plantation we found burning, then also illegal movement of animals.\u201d<\/p>\n

She explained that President Museveni issued a directive ordering those who are unable to comply with the requirements for animal rearing to leave the area.<\/p>\n

The requirements include having land, fencing it off, a water source, and infrastructure for the care of the animals. She claimed that the group was arrested after being discovered on property that none of them owned and that wasn\u2019t fenced off.<\/p>\n

Atiak Sugar factory is part of the beneficiaries of the Shs839.881b supplementary budget government recently gave to a number of entities.<\/p>\n

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