Museveni to commission East Africa’s largest organic fertilizer factory today

President Museveni will this afternoon (Tuesday) commission East Africa’s largest organic fertiliser factory in Uganda’s eastern district of Tororo.
The $620 million (about Shs2.3triilion) Sukulu Project will manufacture glass, steel, organic-fertilizers and create about 2,500 jobs, according to government.
“It’s a new week, and as has become the fashion of late, Chairman Yoweri Museveni is set to launch another multimillion dollar industrial project -the $620million Sukulu Project complex in Tororo that will manufacture glass, steel and organic-fertilizers, creating over 2500 jobs,” reads part of the statement shared on the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) twitter timeline.

Sitting on a 600- acre piece of land, the Guangzhou Dongsong Energy Group (U) Ltd owned industrial complex in Osukuru Sub-county, Tororo District, will produce about 300,000 tonnes of organic fertilisers annually, making it the biggest organic fertiliser plant in East Africa.
The fertilizer production section will be launched by Mr Museveni today and the firm is expected to roll out full production in June next year.

"We are on course. Different sections have been given to different contractors and so far the progress is good. The project is good," Ms Jane Guo, the Group chief executive officer told journalists at her office in Osukuru Sub-county on July 20, this year.
She said the fertilisers are designed specifically for Ugandan soils to boost agriculture in the country.

"Our fertiliser is designed for Ugandan soil, climate and environment. We are purely organic," she said.
According to Ms Guo, Uganda imports approximately 100,000 tonnes of chemical fertilisers annually, a trend which she said they will change with the introduction of organic fertilizers. She said the chemical fertilisers are dangerous to the soils adding that there is need to control their applications in the country.

The fertiliser factory, once operational, will mark an end to years of controversy, corruption and bribery allegations that dogged the process of awarding the mining rights to Guangzhou Dongsong Energy Group (U) Ltd.
Justice Irene Mulyagonja, the Inspector General of Government (IGG), had previously investigated the officials of the company, directorate of geological surveys and mines after it emerged that the awarding process was fraught with fraud, bribery and outright corruption. However, it later emerged that the company officials met the President; he summoned Justice Mulyagonja and rebuked her over the report, forcing her to retract it.