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Traders are protesting local governments and cities’ demand for the trading licence fees for 2020 and 2021 financial years despite the fact that they spent the better part of that period under lockdown.
Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) enforcement officers closed shops in the city until business owners paid trading licence fees for both years.
Kampala New Generation Traders Association chairperson John Kabanda said it was unfair for local government authorities to demand the fees when they were aware that traders did not work for some time due to the lockdown.
“We didn’t work half of the 2020 financial year. Even before the lock down in March last year, the government had put up restrictions that made it hard for our members to operate. Why close their shops because they didn’t pay for the licence for that financial year. They should waive the licence because we were not working,” Mr Kabanda said.