Uganda: Sand Mining Company Boss Drowns in Entebbe Trench

16 November 2017

Residents of Nkumba, Bwaise in Katabi Town council were left in shock after one of their colleagues, Jessie Kiddi, a Nigerian national and manager of Porch mining company fell and drowned into a mining trench.

Eyewitness told this reporter that Kiddi fell in the trench as he was running away from National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) security officials led by Officer in Charge of Environment at Entebbe Main Police station, Sgt James Odong, who had gone to stop the sand mining in the area.

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