UNBS confiscates mattresses worth Shs500m
Trucks ready to whisk away the substandard mattresses seized by Uganda National Bureau of Standards in downtown Kampala. Photo by Eronie Kamukama
KAMPALA. Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has seized substandard mattresses worth Shs500m at Sekaziga House, a mall in downtown Kampala.
UNBS officials began the search alongside police Friday morning only to find hundreds of substandard mattresses awaiting sellers and others in a factory-like structure at the mall’s rooftop.
“We were tipped off that they are stored here and distributed all over the country,” Mr Godwin Muhwezi, UNBS spokesperson said.
“We have confiscated about 5,000 mattresses, worth Shs500m and that means 5,000 consumers saved from consumption of substandard mattresses.”
Police arrested ten people on site, mainly workers, to help with the investigations that should link UNBS to the business owners.
