Over a 100 traders that deal in Printing and Stationery are stranded after the building from where they work was locked up.
The Landlord of the Hoka Printing and Stationers building along Nasser Road reportedly locked up the traders’ merchandise as rent arrears mounted to about 95 million shillings.
For two weeks now, the traders working from the Hoka Printing and Stationers Building along Nasser Road come to work daily, hoping to find their shops open but to find only heavy padlocks on the doors.
Then they gather on the verandas of the buildings, hoping that the issue of rent would soon be resolved and their shops re-opened.
They say that they have been paying rent promptly to one Hope but she hasn’t been remitting it to the Landlord for 8 months. They are charged 250 thousand shillings per month in rent, and the closure has become extremely costly to the traders.
Since the closure, the lady who sub-lets it to the traders has not attempted to address the traders on their fate. But she reportedly sent security men earlier, who broke down the padlocks to forcefully let the traders in.
But in turn, the landlord who is a Ugandan of Asian extraction responded by buying stronger padlocks and placed them back on the doors. Efforts to obtain a comment from either Hope or the landlord are continuing.
