HIGH INTEREST RATES: Furious Mutebile threatens banks with retaliatory statutory capping of lending rates

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The Governor of Bank of Uganda, Professor Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile, has today threatened to take retaliatory statutory action on the banking industry over its reluctance to cut interest rates in line with BoU’s cuts on the Central Bank Rate. Since the year began, BoU has cut its benchmark lending rate from 9 percent to a historic low of 7 percent in June. Nonetheless, banks have been reluc