BUSHENYI – Re-construction of operational grass thatched houses (obujju) has started at Kabagarame Pork Market in Bushenyi – Ishaka Municipality, Bushenyi district.
Kabagarame was burnt down by yet to be identified arsonist(s) on Thursday 1st April 2024 night and most owners were left counting losses.
Being one of the district’s prominent places and a source of high income, both leaders and locals were sadenned to wake up on Friday morning and find the place burnt down.
This propmted the district leadership with area Mp Hon Beimukye Kabuura Derrick to visit the place and met with stall owners thus supporting them to reconstruct them.
Kabagarame pork market operates daily with more than 100 pigs slaughtered and the biggest and memorial operational day is Saturday when it attracts people from different parts of the country. Atleast 500 pigs are slaughtered every Saturday and it also a market for cold drinks, soft drinks, flied chicken, beef and goat’s meat with most business operators being women.
This is not the first time this place has been burnt down and the question remains unanswered “who is always behind the burning of Kabagarame Pork Market”?.
By press time, the issue had been already presented to the floor of Parliament by district woman MP Hon Kansiime Annet Mugisha, barked by Deputy Speaker Rt Hon Thomas Tayeebwa and the minister for Local Government Hon Raphael Magezi promised to send a team within the shortest period of time to access the situation.
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