Mbarara City Resident City Commissioner James Mwesigye says the previous three lists that were being followed had been manipulated noting that the Minister has directed his office and the one of Intelligence to investigate the lists and come up with a solution.
In what is becoming like a ritual, market vendors in Mbarara City are to be re-registered for yet another time.
Resident City Commissioner James Mwesigye has directed for the fresh registration of all Mbarara Central Market vendors.
The
directive for new registration follows the election of the new interim leadership for the Mbarara Central
Market Vendors Association after the Minister of local government Raphael Magyezi suspended the old one that was chaired by Muhammed Nyombi.
Magyezi also
on Friday last week directed the city Clerk to interdict and investigate two
city officials over bribery allegations victimization of vendors, and conflict
of interest thus halted the process of verifying lists and shifting of vendors
until investigations are complete.
The vendors
were supposed to shift to the market yesterday Monday 11th April.
However, the
new Interim leadership chaired by Emmanuel Muhumuza and the Resident City
Commissioner have started the process to re-register all vendors. The process will start tomorrow Wednesday.
He
says the process will take 14 days and will only be for Vendors who were
allocated to the Independence park in 2018 to allow the construction of Mbarara
Central Market.
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“twatekaho orwa kashatu…//
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…kandi niwe turagaruzeyo.”//
He says that the landlords that constructed lockups and stalls at Independence park and
missed out on the first registrations will also be registered.
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“nangwa niwe landlord…//
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…omurundi ogu gumwe.”//
Mbarara City
Resident City Commissioner James Mwesigye says the previous three lists that
were being followed had been manipulated, noting that the Minister has directed
his office and the one of Intelligence to investigate the lists and come up
with a solution.
He says the
preliminary investigations show that at least 470 vendors were shifted to the
Independence park but the lists that were being followed had more than 600
vendors.
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minister kuyizire…//
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ebintu okubyagyezire.”//
He says the
new registration will be fair noting and a vendor will be required to present
a coupon and documents of memorandum of understanding that they were given by
the ministry of local government and Mbarara city council indicating their
stall number.
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ababire baruga…//
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abubazibire kuzamu.”//
Agnes
Mugumya, one of the vegetable vendors appreciated the new registration noting
that this will rid them of non-vendors.
The 21 Billion shillings’ market that sits on
an acre of land, was constructed by the government under the Markets and
Agricultural Trade Improvement Programme (MATIP) with support from the African
Development Bank (ADB) and is expected to accommodate over 1,000 vendors.
