KAMPALA- Shakti Sugar Limited and CN Sugar Limited have filed an appeal and a request for a temporary stay of execution in the High Court seeking to overturn a ruling delivered on January 20, 2025.
The ruling issued by High Court Judge Dr. Douglas Singiza, directed the Inspector General of Police to remove the companies’ sugar and jaggery mills from their current locations in Kayunga District within 14 days.
The companies argue that the ruling is self-executing and would be detrimental to their investments in Uganda.
They claim that the decision to relocate them disregards their constitutional right to own property as they hold certificates of title to the land housing their sugar mills and nuclei.
The ruling was made in response to a petition filed by the Uganda Sugar Manufacturers Association (USMA) against the Attorney General, Minister of Trade, Industry kand Cooperatives, CN Sugar Limited and Shakti Sugar Limited.
The court found that the Ministry of Trade’s failure to establish the Uganda Sugar Board (USB) was a breach of statutory duty and that the establishment of CN and Shakti sugar and jaggery mills within a 25-kilometer radius of other existing sugar and jaggery mills was contrary to government policy.
