Britannia tycoon Vinay Dawda has started the construction of a huge factory in the wetland of Bugolobi as the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) looks on.
This website has established that Vinay Dawda has in the past weeks been filling up the vast Bugolobi wetland which is a huge catchment area for Bugolobi and Namuwongo draining water up to Luzira into L. Victoria.
We have since established that the Tycoon has in the past few weeks been pouring more than 500 trucks of murram into the wetland. The trucks have also heavily damaged and polluted Mpanga Close en route to the wetlands.
Bugolobi wetland which is a huge catchment area for Bugolobi and Namuwongo draining water up to Luzira into L. Victoria
Bugolobi swamp covers over 35 square acres stretching from Namuwongo to Bugolobi linking up to Lake Victoria. In 2011, Britania tried to develop the same swamp but was blocked by the then Kampala mayor Nasser Ntege Ssebgala.
An official from Britannia had started a compensation exercise until a group of people led by Ssebaggala ambushed them and commanded them to stop the erection of the temporary fence.
Ssebaggala, who camped at the swamp with a group of his supporters commonly known as Seyas, said as concerned citizens they could not allow the swamp to be taken over for an industrial park.
Ssebaggala said Bugolobi Swamp was the only water catchment area in that part of Kampala and that constructing industries in a wetland would result in flooding in the entire area.
Referring to the Namungoona Lubigi swamp, Ssebaggala said that the only project that the concerned citizens could allow in the swamp should be related to environmental protection, like the planting of trees.
However, last week Britainia has been filling hundreds of tracks to the wetland, and almost the whole of has been claimed. “This is very dangerous this is one of the major wetlands in the city. If it is reclaimed, the entire of Namuwongo will be flooded,” the area resident said.
Damaged and polluted Mpanga Close en route to the wetlands.
The group traces its beginnings to 1962, when its founder chairman, Hasmukh Dawda, began trading business in neighboring Kenya.[1] Having dropped out of school at age 13, he first began trading in confectioneries, before he eventually raised enough capital to start manufacturing his own.
In 1991, the group set up the Britania biscuit manufacturing in Kampala. In 1996, the group acquired the company Uganda Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (UPL, an importer of medicine, mainly from India, created by the government in 1973), and sold 70% of it to Libyan investors in 2003. From 1990 to 2004, the group invested $30 million in development. In 2002, the group acquired the Kenyan business formerly known as House of Manji, which was under receivership. After reviving the business, it was renamed Manji Food Industries Limited.
The Dawda Group is mainly involved in the manufacture of fruit juices, beverages, mineral water factories, confectionery factories, and the distribution of cosmetics, hardware, and pharmaceuticals.
The group is also involved in the growing of organic cotton. The conglomerate has its headquarters and the majority of its businesses in Uganda, with manufacturing plants in Kenya, and distributes its products in the countries of the East African Community, as well as exporting to Europe and Asia.
The subsidiary companies of the group include but are not limited to, the following businesses:
• Britannia Allied Industries Limited: Ntinda, Uganda –
Manufacturer of confectioneries, fruit juices, artificial drinks,
mineral water and sauces.
• Charms Uganda Limited: Kampala, Uganda – Fast Moving
Consumer Goods (FMCG) distributor in Uganda distributor.
• Uganda Pharmaceuticals Limited: Kampala, Uganda –
Pharmaceutical distributor and retailer.
• Manji Foods Limited: Nairobi, Kenya – Manufacturer of
confectioneries.
• Masaaba Cotton Company: Mbale, Uganda – Exporter of
premium roller lint to Europe, the Far East, and Japan.
• Kyoga Cotton Company: Lira, Uganda – Exporter of premium
roller lint to Europe, the Far East, and Japan.
• Mika Appliances Ltd: Nairobi, Kenya – Appliance Brand selling
various household Appliances.
• One 2 One Logistics: Mombasa, Kenya – Transportation of
various goods throughout East Africa.
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