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Uganda: Jinja Factories Punished
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The Monitor (Kampala)
23 March 2008
Posted to the web 24 March 2008
Joseph Mazige
Jinja
NATIONAL Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) has blocked all sewage lines from two Jinja-based leather and tannery industries that were on Wednesday ordered by the National Environment Management Authority (Nema) to close over pollution.
Jinja Municipal Council has also implemented Nema's orders by stopping the operations Uganda Leather and Tannery Industries (Ulati) and Skyfat in the town.
On Friday, National Water and Sewerage Corporation's Chairman of Technical Committee Yokoramu Katwiremu led the team from the corporation that sealed off the tannerys' sewerage lines.
"We have been communicating with the managers of the two industries about their effluent but they have not met our standards, they have not complied," he said.
Said Mr Katwiremu: "NWSC is not the one responsible for the stench in this town. It is the tannery industries."
He said the closing of the sewage lines should serve as a warning to some of the industries that discharge into NWSC lines without treating their seepage.
He said Jinja Town authorities must keep a keen eye on the closed industries to ensure that they do not discharge directly into Lake Victoria since their sewage lines have been closed.
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Mr Katwiremu urged the tannery industries to come up with plans to construct their effluent treatment plants.
Jinja Mayor Baswari Kezaala said the Municipality will begin examining effluent from chemical related factories and a number of spot inspections will be conducted.
Mr Kezaala called off a peaceful demonstration he had organised on Good Friday in protest of the pollution saying it had been rendered useless by Nema's action.
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