By Bida Elly David<\/p>\n
South Sudan has applauded the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (SSNBS) for quick action on the toxic maize impounded in Nimule.<\/strong><\/p>\n Recently, a high-level committee comprising members from the two countries was constituted to investigate and resolve the trade standoff over the impounded goods at the Elegu border.<\/p>\n Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for South Sudan National Bureau of Standards (SSNBS), Mary Gordon blamed traders for export of toxic goods but not Ugandan authorities.<\/p>\n “We don\u2019t have issues with Uganda; we are trading very well with them, but we need to trade fairly, and we need quality goods because at the moment we have big issues with our health,” she said.<\/p>\n Mary commended the role played by the Ugandan National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) in detecting and destroying the substandard goods returned from the Nimule border.<\/p>\n She said that it indicates the good spirit of the neighborhood.<\/p>\n “The goods that have passed the test we accepted and the ones that have failed we rejected. We have to thank Uganda,” Mary lauded.<\/p>\n She said goods tested and failed without custom duties paid were returned to the Ugandan government to deal with them.<\/p>\n Mary urged the Ugandan government to work towards strengthening their bilateral relationship with South Sudan since signs of standoffs have partly jeopardized the friendship.<\/p>\n “We give Uganda credit because they are really cooperating with us. They look at issues critically,” she continued.<\/p>\n According to Mary, the Ministry of Trade and Investment visited the UNBS to see how the system works because it is now affecting the bilateral relationship.<\/p>\n Mary, however, slammed the customs department at the Nimule border for having cleared the commodities before they underwent examination by the national bureau of Standards.<\/p>\n She said those goods that entered South Sudan were cleared by customs, paid the customs duties, and everything was done without first checking the qualities.<\/p>\n \u201cThe process by the customs in Nimule was wrong; it was supposed to be checked by the bureau first,” Mary challenged.<\/p>\n Mary said what the bureau did at the border was only to detain trucks so that they undergo thorough examination but not to destroy them until the results were processed.<\/p>\n “What happened to those products at Nimule was only detention; we did not confiscate them”. She clarified.<\/p>\n She said that there were over 70 trucks full of assorted goods, most of which were maize flour and wheat.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Bida Elly David South Sudan has applauded the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (SSNBS) for quick action on the toxic maize impounded in Nimule. Recently, a high-level committee comprising members from the two countries was constituted to investigate and resolve the trade standoff over the impounded goods at the[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/NBS-Chief-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16084,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16082\/revisions\/16084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}