Uganda, April 26 -- Findings from a countrywide investigation carried out by the National Building Review Board reveal that most fires were a deliberate act of treason.

The investigation carried out between May 2022 and May 2023 to determine the cause of fires shows that 50 percent of the fires gut commercial structures, 35 percent schools, and the remainder gut residential properties.

In schools, some of the other causes cited were negligence among students, poor maintenance of school property revealed by electricity wires being eaten up by rats, etc, congestion of students in dormitories, lack of fire safety training, lack of fire assembly points, firefighting equipment like extinguishers, hydrants, etc and those in existence are expi...