Uganda: Councillors Taking Our Stalls, Cry Wandegeya Vendors

Four months after a bigger, rebuilt Wandegeya market officially opened amid fanfare on October 7, a war of words is raging over the method of allocating stalls.

Some stalls, vendors interviewed for this story allege, have been taken up by officials and councillors of Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) instead of traders who previously operated in the market. The vendors' chairman, Mawejje Mutesasira said in an interview last week that politicians were eying many of the stalls in the new market.

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