{"id":4040,"date":"2021-02-10T18:49:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T18:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=4040"},"modified":"2021-02-10T16:33:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T16:33:04","slug":"namutumba-sand-miners-decry-price-fluctuations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/namutumba-sand-miners-decry-price-fluctuations","title":{"rendered":"Namutumba sand miners decry price fluctuations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Ayub Kirya, 24, a sand miner, left his village in Nabusere, Nakalama Sub-county, Iganga District, two years ago and settled in Namutumba District, with sand mining as his main source of income.<\/p>\n<p>However, Kirya says unlike in the past where the activity used to fetch them some reasonable income, things have changed for the worse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI left Iganga for Namutumba to engage in sand mining, thinking the activity earns better here but there is no difference,\u201d he told Daily Monitor at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Kirya is not alone in this dilemma. Sand miners in Nakawunzo Village, Nawaikona Sub-county in Namutumba District, say the activity is not only a seasonal one, but also the least paid.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Michael Kalikwani, another miner, said prices for a trip of plaster sand have been fluctuating since last year, and now ranges between Shs25,000 and Shs30,000 depending on the size of the truck, down from between Shs35,000 and Shs40,000 a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>He blamed the price fluctuation on truck drivers and the poor road network.\u201cTruck drivers are always complaining of the long distances they drive from Namutumba to Jinja and Iganga. They also tell us that their trucks consume a lot of fuel during those trips,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>For that reason, Mr Richard Menya, a sand miner from Busembatia Town Council, has urged authorities to lobby for them to benefit from government programmes such as the Youth Livelihood Fund (YLF) and Emyooga.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Menya also said to get better deals, authorities should help them access money from such initiates such that they start ferrying the sand to Kampala themselves, where they say there is ready and good market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinancially, we are not stable, so we end up being cheated by brokers; we now want to start selling sand in Kampala,\u201d he said.Mr Ben Dikange, a truck driver, however, blamed the poor prices of sand on construction engineers and brokers, whom he said pay them little money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSand mining is a profitable job but the problem is brokers. Much as sand miners and scoopers blame us for the poor and often fluctuating prices, we are also cheated by brokers,\u201d he said.Sand mining is the extraction of sand, mainly through an open pit but sometimes mined from beaches and inland dunes or dredged from ocean and river beds. editorial@ug.nationmedia.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. Ayub Kirya, 24, a sand miner, left his village in Nabusere, Nakalama Sub-county, Iganga District, two years ago and settled in Namutumba District, with sand mining as his main source of income. However, Kirya says unlike in the past where the activity used to fetch them some reasonable income, things have changed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":4039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-4040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Namutumba sand miners decry price fluctuations - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ayub Kirya, 24, a sand miner, left his village in Nabusere, Nakalama Sub-county, Iganga District, two years ago and sett ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/namutumba-sand-miners-decry-price-fluctuations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Namutumba sand miners decry price fluctuations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ayub Kirya, 24, a sand miner, left his village in Nabusere, Nakalama Sub-county, Iganga District, two years ago and sett ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/namutumba-sand-miners-decry-price-fluctuations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-02-10T18:49:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/02\/img-60240aa55620e.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/namutumba-sand-miners-decry-price-fluctuations#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/namutumba-sand-miners-decry-price-fluctuations\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Namutumba sand miners decry price fluctuations\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-02-10T18:49:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/namutumba-sand-miners-decry-price-fluctuations\"},\"wordCount\":396,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/namutumba-sand-miners-decry-price-fluctuations#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/02\/img-60240aa55620e.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/namutumba-sand-miners-decry-price-fluctuations#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/namutumba-sand-miners-decry-price-fluctuations\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/namutumba-sand-miners-decry-price-fluctuations\",\"name\":\"Namutumba sand miners decry price fluctuations - 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