Museveni made the announcement shortly after commissioning 16 new factories in the Sino-Uganda Mbale Industrial Park, some of which are involved in the manufacturing of clothes.
“I told you before, that those secondhand clothes are for dead people from abroad,” Museveni said.
“When the white people die, all their clothes are collected packed in bales, and brought to us the Africans.
President Museveni on the other hand, thanked the Chinese investors for reviving Uganda’s textile industry.
The President said these investors had now given him the strength to rid the country of secondhand clothes, also known as Mivumba.
The government on Museveni’s directives has tried in the past to ban imported second-hand garments and shoes but failed due to the sheer size of the business.
African markets are flooded with second hand clothes which are from dead people, we import everything from abroad, yet the raw materials are from Africa hence retardation of grow museveni said.
