Legal
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Sugarcane Outgrowers Crying Foul
KIKUUBE – Complaints over mistreatment and missed payments are sparking friction between sugarcane outgrowers and their employer, Hoima Sugar Limited in the western districts of Kikuube and Hoima. Francis Isingoma alias Max…
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Pay Dispute Rocks Atiak Out Growers Cooperative
AMURU –Rebel war abductees allied to Dwog Cen Paco Cooperative Society in the Northern district of Amuru are demanding about Shs 8.68 billion in wages for work done for Atiak sugarcane plantation…
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Court Summons Civil Servants Over Forgery
LIRA – Grade One magistrate’s court in Lira has issued summons for three civil servants accused of forging an attendance list of the annual general meeting of Ayago SACCO. The summons were…
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Emyooga accounts Frozen over cash theft
KIKUUBE – A slow-simmering scandal over the theft of Emyooga cash from a SACCO bank account in the western district of Hoima and the arrest of a local official there has brought…
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Cooperative fight over assets Spilled into public view
Enock Rusibika, the chairman and his co-executive leaders of Rubaya Cooperative Society Ltd, are battling very damaging accusations of selling the cooperative’s truck registration number UAJ 9791W in March without consulting members.…
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SACCO Boss Jailed Over Emyooga Cash Theft
KIKUUBE –Authorities in the Western District of Kikuube have arrested John Paul Mugabi, the chairman of Buhaguzi Constituency Mechanics Saving and Credit Co-operative Society (SACCO), on suspicion of stealing Shs 21 million…
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Seventeen SACCOs pass fitness test, get registration certificates
SOROTI – Seventeen out of 18 Saccos in Soroti City East Division passed the fit-and-proper test and finally got their certificates of registration and bylaws from the registrar of cooperatives. The certificates,…
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Hoima leaders locked in fight over cooperative union
Even before it gets off the paper, a plan by businessman Abdu Mariki Mugisa to form Bunyoro farmer’s Cooperative has drawn strong opposition largely from leaders in the western district of Hoima…
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Apac: Shs 40 bn Aquaculture Project stalls over land row
The construction of dams in Apac district under the Aquaculture project has stalled, and the site been abandoned by contractors as locals bicker over land compensation, theCooperator has learned. In 2018, residents…
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Lira DCO, four others remanded for forgery of SACCO documents
Court has remanded Lira District Commercial Officer (DCO), Josephine Alobo, and four others to jail for alleged forgery of SACCO documents contrary to section 34 of the Penal Code Act. Alobo appeared…
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