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• Batu loses Shs4 billion case to tobacco growers 

Over 3,000 tobacco farmers from mid western Uganda have won a landmark case in which they demanded over Shs3.8 billion from BAT Uganda Limited (Batu) as compensation for tobacco grown in 2004 which the latter refused to buy.

Commercial Court Judge, Egonda Ntende in his judgment delivered last week, agreed with the arguments of the farmers that Batu was liable to compensate the complainants for the tobacco they grew on contract.

“I am satisfied that the farmers grew the tobacco in accordance with their contract and the law and delivered the same to Batu,” Justice Ntende’s judgement reads in part.

“But the tobacco company, for reasons that have not been explained in this case, declined to complete the process

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