Growers urged to use courts to get their money

Uganda’s Parliamentary Speaker Rebecca Kadaga on Tuesday told tobacco growers to sue Continental Tobacco Uganda for allegedly disregarding the House Committee on Agriculture’s 2013 directive to pay five billion shillings (US$1.5 million) to the growers for tobacco they supplied to the company between 2011 and 2012, according to a story by Nelson Wesonga for Monitor, relayed by the TMA.

Their lawsuit she said, should seek not only the money owed to them, but also general damages for failure to pay them, special damages for loss of income, and interest – so that the company felt the pressure.

Kedaga made her suggestions during a meeting with about 30 tobacco growers from Kibaale District.