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Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>President Museveni yesterday threatened to arrest foreign manufacturers masquerading as local investors to benefit from the incentives extended to local firms.The President made the remarks while officiating at the opening of five factories and one hotel at the Namanve Industrial Park in Wakiso District.Mr Museveni instructed the Ministry of Finance to deal with the people he called \u2018crooks\u2019, whom he accused of helping foreign companies to register as local investors to benefit from the Buy Uganda, Build Uganda (BUBU) policy of promoting local content.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to assure the manufacturers that the ministry should register complaints to do with these crooks and they will be arrested,\u201d Mr Museveni said.In response, State Minister for Investment and Privatisation Evelyn Anite, who was at the same event, promised to follow up on the President\u2019s directive.Mr Museveni also warned Ministry of Finance officials, who he called bureaucrats, to stop imposing new taxes on manufacturers before they are consulted.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have told the Ministry of Finance that all the tax policies must be discussed by the manufacturers first. They are the ones on the frontline of fighting for economic independence of the country,\u201d Mr Museveni said.The President also promised to extend cheap power to the manufacturers. \u201cWe have got dams which will provide cheap power like Karuma, Nalubale, Isimba, and Kira. These are going to supply power directly to the industrial parks, not through middlemen.\u201dSome of the factories that were launched yesterday include Crown Packaging Factory, Picfare Industries Ltd, Tian Tang factory and the Nile Hotel Kampala.<\/p>\n

Picfare industries committed to venture into printing ballot papers, bank cheque books, scholastic materials and documents such as academic certificates.\u201cUnder this $12.5 million project, we shall venture into printing of security documents and other scholastic materials, which will save revenue that was initially lost to foreign firms,\u201d Mr Mitul Jobanputra, the vice chairperson of the Picfare industries, said.FactAbout Namanve Industrial ParkThe Namanve Industrial Park has 20 industrial zones created by government in a bid to grow Uganda\u2019s economy and sits on 2,200 acres.The industrial park, according to Mr Morrison Rwakakamba, the newly appointed chairperson of the Uganda Investment Authority (UIA), has about of 300 active investors who have 146 projects already underway. These have since generated about 17,500 jobs out of which 5,000 are direct jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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