Matek
Those steels are very handy in making a pit latrine floor, that is what is
taking them at such a high speed. We are feeding in a pit latrine culture that
has failed to die in Uganda in 2007.
Em
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From: Matek Opoko
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Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 10:26 PM
Subject: [Ugandacom] Another sector in dare need..
EM..perhaps sister jenny will donate some money here as well to help Uganda
railways!!!..could it be that the people stealing rail trucks ( yup that heavy
tonnage of steel) are doing so because of poverty in Uganda brought by Yoweri
Kaguta Museveni's NRM Military dictatorship ...really How can some one begin
to steal a rail track?
Matek
Thieves Cost URC Shs58 Billion
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The Monitor (Kampala)
30 July 2007
Posted to the web 30 July 2007
Zurah Nakabugo and Andrew Bagala
Kampala
UGANDA Railways Corporation has lost 160 kilometres of rail track material
worth Shs58 billion to thieves on the Busoga and Kasese-Kampala line.
Acting URC Chief Executive officer Noel Muhangi told reporters at the Police
headquarters in Kampala last week that most of the stolen tracks end up in
steel rolling mills in Lugazi, Jinja, Mbarara and Iganga.
"The biggest part of the track that has been vandalised is the western route
which has lost 90 kilometres of material and Busoga comes second with 70kms. If
you calculate, these are billions of shillings that we have lost," Mr Muhangi
said.
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The steel materials are smelted and rolled into products like steel bars,
fake coins, among other products. The reported cases are mainly on the 333 km
Kampala-Kasese line and the 144 km Jinja-Mbulamuti-Busembatia line. The Kasese
line has been disused for more than a decade.
The other affected routes are the 500 km Tororo-Pakwach and the 250
Kampala-Malaba lines. URC says if this continues, by the end of 2008, they
would have lost track worth Shs173 billion.
Police spokesman Asan Kasingye said a policeman one Turinabwe and a Gombolola
ISO officer Joseph Lukwago from Mityana District are facing charges of rail
track theft.
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