A senior government officer has fired the interim committee of the new Kitooro market in Entebbe.
The interim committee headed by one Isabirye Marijan plus whole squad has been fired by the municipal town clerk Charles Magumba.
The committee was fired last week after several reports pinning them down in the mismanagement of the new multi billion shillings government market.
The suspended market authorities have been put on ‘katebe’ after milking more than enough in the distribution of shops and locker ups and bagging millions of shillings in the stalls’ allocation.
“The market chairman and his committee have made us cry tears but God cares for his own people even them they will cry like us”, source said.
“They have been charging exorbitantly fees to get stalls and locker ups on addition to claiming they own the government owned market”, another source revealed.
“Most potential traders did not get chance to acquire stalls and locker up because of the in money greed embroiled in the stalls allocation”, indicates report
“And to make matters worse even some government municipal authorities fought for stalls and locker up during their allocation exercise a couple of months ago before the official market opening to public”, report reveals
The twenty four billion (shs24bn) government aided project was officially launched earlier this year (January 2021) by his excellency Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and under the Markets and Agricultural Trade Improvement Programme (MATIP).
The giant market has over 1000 shops and stalls plus other modern business facilities including nursery, banking hall and community center.
Fact file:
We have highly established that in 2016, the market chairman also former chairman of Entebbe Municipal Umbrella For Development was implicated in the mismanagement and down fall of the community aided project where President Y.K Museveni injected thirty million shillings as startup capital. The presidential money sparked a bitter row with other committee members including Vice Chairman Mugenyi Kitone, Nabusoba Annet (Treasurer) and others to fall out.This was the end of the presidential aided funded to the dogs>
