Uganda: Fuel Stock to Last Five Days

Uganda has stocked fuel supplies enough to last for five days or more, the energy state minister, Simon D’Ujanga, has said.

In spite of the minister’s assurance yesterday, fuel, especially petrol, remained scarce countrywide. In Gulu, security agents temporarily blocked a filling station, Delta Petroleum, from selling a litre of petrol at sh6,000.
At about 9:00am, motorists converged at the filling station on learning that a truck had arrived with 11,000 litres of fuel.

However, they were disappointed that the price of petrol had increased from sh2,490, prompting the deputy resident district commissioner (RDC), Milton Odong, to order the Police to stop Delta from overcharging motorists.

But the RDC, Col. Walter Ochora, cleared Delta to sell fuel at sh6,000.

“This is a free economy. There is no way the Government is going to fix prices for people in private enterprise.”

The bus fares to Kampala from Gulu had risen from sh18,000 to over sh30,000.

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