Farmers want to hold pro-Gaddafi demonstration

JINJA - About 10,000 sugar cane growers in Busoga have sought police clearance to stage a peaceful demonstration in support of embattled Libyan leader, Col Muammar Gaddafi. The farmers say they reject the central bank’s recent seizure of Tropical Bank— one of the Libyan investments in the country.

The bank was last week taken over by Bank of Uganda in accordance with the UN resolution, 1973 that froze Gaddafi’s assets world-wide. In the letter to the Inspector General of Police dated

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