Court rules trade minister's sugar licenses invalid
The Court in Kampala has ruled that the Minister of Trade and Industry has been issuing sugar licenses to establish sugar and jaggery mills without the requisite legal backing.
According to Justice Douglas Karekona Singiza of the Civil Division of the High Court in Kampala, the line minister has been using certificates of no objection to enable investors to set up sugar mills, yet the law demands that the Uganda Sugar Policy (USB) issue the same. The court’s decision implies that in the absence of the Uganda Sugar Board, no new sugar license is valid and no new sugar plantation should be established within a radius of less than 25 kilometers from another.
