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Still Waiting: Co-operative Unions' War-Loss Claims Hit a Shs137bn Funding Gap

By Kaza Research Desk

8 April 2025 · 4 min read

The Bugisu Cooperative Union premises in Mbale
Bugisu Cooperative Union, one of Uganda's historic coffee unions. · Photo: Erinamukuta / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Many of Uganda's great co-operative unions lost buildings, vehicles, stock and machinery during the political instability of the 1970s and 1980s. For years the government has promised to compensate them. On 2 April 2025, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives, Lynette Bagonza, told a parliamentary committee that the exercise faced a funding gap of more than Shs137 billion, and that although verification had been done, no payments had been made.

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Sources & references

  1. Legislators query funding for compensation of war claimants — Parliament of Uganda, 2025-04-02
  2. Cooperatives cash scandal: What House committee found, observed and recommended — Daily Monitor, 2024-07

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