Ms Suzan Kushaba, a 33 year mother of three and chairperson of St. Balikuddembe (Owino) Market Vendors’ Association has been terribly clobbered by a team of ruthless Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) revenue collectors in Owino Market and she is currently bedridden at Case Clinic/Hospital in Kampala. She admitted on 6^th floor bed No. 7.

The reason she has been tortured and stripped naked is because she led a big team of women who petitioned Parliament, challenging the brutality meted out to vendors, especially women who toil to fend for their families.

Uganda is one of the African countries where women’s rights are abused by some leaders in power.

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This morning the FDC president Col. Kiiza Besigye went to Old Kampala Police Station to check on one of his supporters Henry Kimera who was arrested last tuesday in St. Balikuddembe (Owino) Market where he works.

The police and some leaders of NRM in Owino market claim that Kimera and others still at large wanted to set the market on fire.

But Besigye posed a question to the police, how can Kimera who has worked in Owino for more than 10 years burn the hands that feed him. Besigye says that his man is being persecuted for having taken him to Owino market early this year. Since last Tuesday, Kimera has not been taken to court meaning that he has stayed under police custody for over 216 hours instead of the mandatory 24 hours.

Kimera says that the cells he is detained in are stinking, and he now has malaria because of the condition. Col. Besigye has sent him lawyers to work for his release.

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Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has finalized plans to turn Owino (St. Balikuddembe) market into a largest shopping mall in East and centralAfrica.

The sources at KCCA told our informers that the council plans to spend 28 million US dollars in the reconstruction of Owino into a modern and largest shopping mall.

The KCCA director, Ms Jenifer Musisi says that the shopping mall once completed would accommodate over 25 traders. She advised all traders in Owino to cooperate with KCCA in order to make its plan of modernizing Owino market a total success.

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Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) is in shock after about 312 billion shillings meant to develop markets in the city went missing on the council’s bank accounts.

KCCA has consequently established a committee comprised of councilors to investigate the whereabouts of the said money. Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago says that the committee is headed by his deputy Sulaiman Kidandala.

 The money was meant to redevelop Kasubi, Kansanga, Owino (St. Balikudembe), Nnkulabye and Wandegeya market. However the KCCA director Jenifer Musisi claims that the money was used. But she doesn’t explain where it was used and who used it.

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We have been reliably informed that Hajji Basajjabalaba has bought five timber houses in Ndeeba and officially joined the business.

The business tycoon has now recruited his family members and cousins to run his timber business on his behalf. In fact Basajjabalaba has a lot of money. He has even bought off the land on which the five timber stores are seated.

If history remains constant, you will soon hear that conflicts have erupted at timber stores in Ndeeba. You see wherever Basajjabalaba goes, conflicts follow him. When he was managing Nakasero and Owino markets, his administration was characterised by wrangles.

By Christine Kate

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