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Riots Scare Off Ugandan Businessmen


The Monitor (Kampala)


NEWS
11 January 2008
Posted to the web 10 January 2008

By Ismail-Musa Ladu
Kampala

UGANDAN traders claim they are now being targeted inside Kenya by angry locals
following President Museveni's congratulatory message to President Mwai Kibaki
upon winning Kenya's disputed election.

Kampala City Traders Association [Kacita] Spokes person Issa Ssekitto told
Daily Monitor that several Ugandan traders in Kenya live in fear and at least
two Ugandan trucks fully loaded with merchandise were set ablaze last week in
Kisumu.



"So far, we have lost two trucks in Kenya, one was a fuel truck for Petrocity
[a local Fuel company] and the other was a hardware truck which were all burnt
down by the protesters in Kisumu," Mr Ssekitto said.

He said they will need alot of security while moving in Kenya.


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