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State Minister for Finance in charge of Investment and Privatization, Ms Evelyn Anite has cautioned the business community in Uganda against importing goods that are similar to those produced locally.

Officiating at the launch of a two-day annual regional industrialization conference held in Kampala on September 25, Ms Anite said importation of such goods would disempower local manufacturers and render millions of Ugandans jobless.

“Government is promoting industrialization to create more jobs for Ugandans because the civil service jobs can only take on 471,000 people. Donating our money to the China Town store, means we are shunning products that are being made by our industrialists here,” the Minister explained while referring to a newly opened store at Lugogo Shopping Mall in Kampala.

Hundreds of customers have in the last few months been thronging the Lugogo-based China Town store to purchase relatively cheaper products.

This has however caused discomfort among Ugandan traders and manufacturers who are competing for the same clients.

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