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By Brian Alenyo
SOROTI: Despite several encouragement from president Museveni to local Ugandans to invest in various income generating activities projects and help to increase country’s economy, a section of ministers in Teso region are busy fighting against the local investors from Teso due to their political diference.
The current fight is where a minister who hails from Katakwi district is using other government agencies to frustrate one of the main busy supermarket in Soroti owned by a farmer and a resident of Katakwi district.
This the second fight the minister is doing after suceecefully influenced the closure of the main pharmacy known as Emirates phamercy due to unclear reasons despite the pharmacy having runing tenants agreement with post office Uganda where the pharmacy was operating from and also valid LDA licence.
The owner of the two investment who preferred to keep his name hidden told this publication that the minister who has his own problems with vice president Ms Jessica Alupo who hails from Katakwi has turned the wars in all the businesses owned by relatives of the vice president.
“For me am after business, and help the country generate revenue am not in their politics but the way the minister is fighting me investments, and his plan is to see me completely off,”he said.
Betty Akurut another trader said her cereal banking business also was forced to collapse by one of the Teso ministers appointed by President Museveni.
“What he dose, he goes to URA, gets some staffs and comes and harasses us in our business and even closing which is wrong,”She said.
According to Ms Akurut, many business in Soroti are collapsing because of the action by the dark hearted Museveni’s ministers.
“We don’t have access to meet president Museveni we would tell him how some of his ministers are fighting against our business simply because we don’t give money to them during campaigns,”She added
Pius Okwalinga another business man from Soroti said they have a list of the ministers who are actually anti Teso development which they would present to president Museveni with the evidence when they get a chance to met him.
“We are not happy with what these ministers are doing for us, we are not in their stupid politics but they are fighting us especially if any of their political rival comes and purchase an item from any of the shops that’s the beginning of the downfall of that business-“he said
Last week a group of Iteso elites through their various social media accounts blamed the poverty in Teso to greedy and poor performing members of parliament of Teso region. Currently Teso region had witnessed an ugly incidents where high profile Iteso politicians are fighting amongst themselves something that has affected service delivery in Teso region.