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Why multi-billion markets remain unoccupied
Monday April 26 2021
President Museveni inspects Kasese Central Market after commissioning it on December 15, 2020. Such establishments remain unoccupied despite massive expenses incurred in setting them up. PHOTO/ KELVIN ATUHAIRE
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Some modern markets have given towns across the country a facelift, but since they were commissioned by President Museveni, the structures remain unoccupied.
The markets, constructed under the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development (USMID) project, are meant to create organisation and proper handling of foodstuffs for a complete chain of food supply.
In Soroti Town, the Shs24b market, which is to accommodate close to 1,300 vendors, remains unoccupied after several people who originally did not own stalls were allocated stalls.
Shs50b Tororo, Mbale road works start
Sunday April 04 2021
Part of Tororo-Nagongera road that the President has severally promised to tarmack. Rehabilitation of roads worth Shs19.7b in Tororo Municipality has kicked off. PHOTO | JOSEPH OMOLLO
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The USMID project coordinator, Mr Isaac Mutenyo, while handing over road construction sites to the contractor, Dott Services Construction Company, on Wednesday, said they expect the works to be completed within 15 months.
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The rehabilitation of roads worth Shs19.7b in Tororo Municipality under the second phase of the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development Programme (USMID) has kicked off.
The USMID project coordinator, Mr Isaac Mutenyo, while handing over road construction sites to the contractor, Dott Services Construction Company, on Wednesday, said they expect the works to be completed within 15 months.
As schools reopen for sub-candidate classes today, many teachers will not return to classrooms due to low salaries and poor working conditions worsened by the one-year closure due to the COVID-19 lockdown.
This comes as semi-candidates are set to return to school today.
Many of the non-returning teachers mainly in private schools, faced with no payment and other challenges of the lockdown, ventured into alternative income-generating projects.
However, others in government-aided schools, despite having been receiving their monthly salaries, have also abandoned teaching after discovering better-paying enterprises.
In Kabale District, for instance, Mr Moses Muhangi Tweyongyere, a secondary school geography teacher, who was earning Shs300,000 per month in a private school, is not returning to teaching.
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