29 stolen British cars worth over £1million found in a wasteland of Uganda

It was a sort of chance discovery of 29 stolen British cars when detectives trying to trace a Lexus stolen from London ended up tracking it to Uganda, thanks to the state-of-the-art tracking device fitted on the £50,000 SUV. The Lexus was found alongside a fleet of British cars worth more than £1 million.
The tracking device got activated as soon as it was taken from outside a property in west London.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 22 September 2015.

Thanks to the tracking device, the National Crime Agency used a smartphone app to trace the journey of the stolen RX450h 6,000 miles to the Uganda capital Kampala. And, they were stunned to find it alongside 28 other luxury cars which had been stolen from the UK by the gang of car-smugglers.
The stolen Lexus first went to Le Havre, in France from where it was shipped across the Mediterranean Sea and through the Suez Canal down to the Middle Eastern nation of Oman. It was next shipped to Mombasa in Kenya and finally transported by road to Kampala in a steel container.
It seems locals drive on the right-hand side and, hence, luxury right-hand-drive cars are in great demand in land-locked Uganda.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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#AndrewMupuya #YELI #Uganda #paperbags This is the fascinating story of Andrew Mupuya and proves that perseverance pays in the long run – today he is an award-winning entrepreneur but he was just a 16-year-old teenager who decided to take on the world. He was in need of money and, luckily for him, at the time, officials in the country had announced that they were considering a ban on plastic bags to curb environmental damage.
In 2008, Andrew Mupuya was still in secondary school and, with both his parents unemployed, he seized the opportunity to start a paper bag production company. He carried out a feasibility study, market research around retail shops, kiosks, supermarkets around Kampala and discovered there is need and potential market for paper bags.
Once he took off, there was no looking back. His business has grown extensively and today, at the age of 21, he is the owner of Youth Entrepreneurial Link Investments (YELI), the first registered Ugandan company to make paper bags.
He employs 16 people who produce up to 20,000 paper bags each week and his long list of clients includes restaurants, retail stores, supermarkets, medical centers, as well as multinational companies like Samsung -- YELI has made about 1,000 niche bags for the local stores of the electronics company.‎
He proudly says that right now he has 72 clients and most of them always come back.