Revenue sharing to end cattle market wrangles at Uganda-Democratic Republic of the Congo border

KASESE - Kasese district's Mpondwe Lhubiriha town council and Isango sub-county leaders have for long wrangled over the management of the cattle market at the Ugandan-DR Congo border.Part of the dispute is over who takes the lion's share of the collected revenue from the sale of livestock at the facility.With an annual revenue of shillings 500 million to one billion, the leaders have on many occasions disagreed over the location of the cattle holding market so as to gain the capacity to collect the huge revenue.This has seen the market at some point operate at Isango and most times in Mpondwe after the intervention of various authorities including security, political leadership, and the local government ministry.Located a few metres from the borderline, Isango sub-county has government-owned land gazatted for a cattle holding market. However, unlike Isango, which has free land, Mpondwe Lhubiriha town council rents the land on which it wants the livestock market to sit. Speaking to ...