Officials from the Uganda Development Corporation (UDC) have told Parliaments trade committee that allegations that the corporation's executive director fired the Board of Directors of Soroti Fruit Factory are baseless.
On Tuesday, 8 February 2022, Soroti West Division MP Jonathan Ebwalu told a plenary Parliament sitting that the managers of the factory and UDC were running the factory as a personal business. Ebwalu added that the managers of the factory were frustrating local farmers by buying fruits from neighboring countries like Kenya, Tanzania and DR Congo, yet the factory was supposed to uplift their economic status.
"Farmers are frustrated and are cutting down their trees. They say a big percentage of the fruits is thrown away and the factory takes on only 20 per cent of their fruits. Soroti Fruit Factory has been making losses 10 years in a row," Ebwalu told the trade committee on Monday, 21 February 2022.
Source: softpower.ug
