Rwanda's sugar and Uganda's irish potatoes dominate illegal cross border trade

RWANDA'S SUGAR AND UGANDA'S IRISH POTATOES DOMINATE ILLEGAL CROSS BORDER TRADE

newvision.co.ug. Mar 28, 2019 12:25 PM
"While Rwanda advised her citizens not to travel to Uganda, citing arrests, harassment and torture, which has stalled business between the two countries, the decision has exerted pressure on border communities of both countries, which have depended on each other through trade and other interactions.

At the Mirama Hills/Kagitumba border posts, muscular and daring young men have continued to use illegal routes to smuggle goods. A sample visit to some of the illegal routes especially in the villages of Kigando, adjacent to Kafunjo town, simple paths for border residents who found it cumbersome to use the official border have turned into permanent crossings.

Often men pushing heavily loaded bicycles carrying sugar (see photo) and other items are seen offloading them at the river separating the two countries, carry them across on heads and later reload. Many smuggle sugar into Uganda, which is later sold in neighbouring towns at fairly lower prices. The same men ride through neighbouring villages like Sofia, Kitwe, Ruhaama, Mpaama, Kafunjo, Kigando and other villages, where they buy Irish potatoes, cassava and matooke, which they carry across the water (see photo) for sale in Rwanda."

The above story by the Kampala regime's mouthpiece dispels the Kampala regime's propaganda that it's only Rwandans who depend on goods from Uganda. Some apologists have even gone ahead to insinuate that the scarcity of essential commodities and food in Rwanda has forced Kagame to kneel before Museveni for normalisation of relations. Ugandans who are thriving on cheap sugar smuggled from Rwanda can't stomach such nonsense. Why would Kagame kneel when he is the one who advised his people not to travel to Uganda!!!!

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