By Silvia Nyambura
The Uganda Chamber of Mines and Petroleum (UCMP) has called for a more balanced approach to the Value Addition strategy in the country’s nascent mineral sector.
The plea follows an outcry from UCMP members in the mining sector whose operations have suffered immeasurable setbacks following the ban on all mineral exports. Government enforced the ban in February 2015, in a quest to encourage value addition on the minerals or beneficiation.
“UCMP supports and encourages its members to embrace minerals value addition as a strategic policy for the country. However, the omnibus ban on all minerals has created a credibility crisis for Uganda. We cannot be saying that we are attracting investment in the mineral sector and at the same time we impose a ban on mineral exports,
