Masaka Municipality gets over 600 million shillings from UN Habitat to reconstruct Nyendo Market under its Lake Victoria Water and Sanitation Initiative, to save the lake from waste pollution. But as the project takes off, some traders in the market are holding fears that the market could have been sold off without their knowledge.
It took the Municipal leaders time to convince the market vendors that the Market had not been sold off as is the case in Kampala . UN Habitat has contracted two companies to redevelop the market, improve its drainage systems as well as its sanitation within two months.
The vendors have been given two weeks to vacate the market and move to a nearby open space. The vendors are however wondering how they will operate in place with no pit latrines yet polythene bags that they would have used were banned.
These arguments according to the Nyendo/Ssenyange Division Chairman Gonzaga Kisirinya are orchestrated to derail the program because even the current market has never had a pit latrine. Meanwhile Masaka Municipal Council launches a Municipal Court to ensure cleanliness in the town.
Masaka Deputy Mayor Charles Kasibante Kibabirire says the court was conceived to check the unnecessary littering of garbage and grazing of animals in the town. This is one of the steps the Municipal leadership is taking to strengthen its quest for a city status.
