Uganda Revenue Authority burns cigarettes
THE Uganda Revenue Authority has burned Supermatch cigarettes worth sh422m, the assistant commissioner for customs enforcement, Enock Walugembe, has said. 
“The Customs Enforcement Department over the last year impounded 19,670,000 cigarettes worth sh422m that were being smuggled into the country,” Walugembe said.
“We want to give accountability to the public in the area of tax compliance on imports,” he said at Kigo Prison where the cigarettes were put in an incinerator.
Walugembe said if the cigarettes were not impounded, the Government would have lost sh511m.
“We cannot sell them to the public,” he said.
