Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mbarara Central Market vendors have petitioned the City Council authorities to carry out a special audit of the operations of their SACCO. They say the SACCO has remained inactive since 2014 and they have not received any audit report from the management. The SACCO that …
Read More »Mbarara Central market vendors protest new space demarcations
Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mbarara Central Market vendors are protesting new space demarcations by the City Council, a move undertaken to create more spaces. Mbarara city authorities started demarcating the market on Monday and directed vendors to remove their displays from the demarcated areas which will now be allocated …
Read More »Minister orders fresh verification of vendors in Mbarara central market
Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Local Government Raphael Magyezi has directed fresh verification of all Mbarara central market vendors. This is the fifth time the vendors are registered and verified. The directive follows investigations after registering multiple complaints from vendors. Magyezi suspended the verification lists done by …
Read More »Mbarara city authorities display lists of vendors to occupy central market
Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mbarara city authorities have displayed the list of vendors ahead of the reopening of Mbarara Central Market. Last week, the Minister of Local Government Raphael Magyezi directed the city leaders to display the list of the rightful vendors. He said that the rightful vendors are …
Read More »Roko construction ltd hands over Mbarara central market to city authorities
Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Roko Construction Limited has finally handed over Mbarara Central Market to Mbarara City Authority after the completion of construction works. The government awarded Roko Construction Limited the contract to reconstruct Mbarara Central Market in 2018 at a cost of 21.11 Billion shillings under The Markets …
Read More »Delayed completion of Mbarara market attributed to lack of performance guarantee
Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The delayed completion of the Mbarara Central Market has been attributed to failure by the contractor to renew his performance guarantee with the Bank. A Performance Guarantee is a contractors promise to complete the project undertaken. It is issued by an insurance company or …
Read More »Construction delays Mbarara city council UGX 600m market
Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mbarara city council Authority has lost 600 million shillings for the financial year 2020/21 due to the delay to finalize the construction Central Market. The 21 billion Shilling construction of the Mbarara central Market started in February 2018 and was expected to be completed in …
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