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By Wilber Muhwezi Kasibante
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In Bushenyi—-
The embattled Bushenyi Ishaka deputy mayor Joel Nkole has called upon the newly appointed west Ankole diocesan secretary Rev. Can. Bethel Namara to quickly come to Bushenyi Ishaka municipality and calm down the councilors who are using censure instead of dialogue.
The deputy mayor said this today 21st Nov.2022 at All Saints greater Bushenyi in a service held to say to the outgoing archdeacon Bethel Namara.

Nkole was speaking as the only politician at the function and hailed the archdeacon for performing exemplarily by building the archdeacon’s house buying, expensive vehicle and helping other churches under the archdeaconry like Ruharo Church of Uganda.
Nkole used the chance given to him to speak to call upon the promoted archdeacon to rush to Bushenyi Ishaka municipality and calm down councillors who have resorted to censuring him rather than dialogue.
Nkole was censured last month as the deputy mayor against the will and wish of the mayor and the solicitor general.
The outgoing archdeacon who is now the Diocesan secretary was given gifts including a two heifers; one from archdeaconry, parish, a goat from Hon. Mary Karooro and others
The archdeacon who has already resumed work as the diocesan secretary told the parishioners that he will moving out on Thursday after reverend Didas Natweta has been ushered in.

By Libino Byamukama
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In Kabale—

The former occupants of the Kabale Central Market protested against procedures issued to guide their resettlement in the newly constructed market facility.
The new facility is being constructed at a Chong Chuing International tune of 23 billion Shillings by the Chinese Construction Company under the World Bank-funded Markets and Agricultural Trade Improvement program – MATIP III.
According to Kabale Municipal authorities, construction is almost complete and the Government is expected to commission it before the end of this year.
When construction started in December 2019, traders were relocated to Kabale Police Barracks playground in Kigongi central division, and others in Mwanjari business center, southern division.
This was after the Kabale Municipal Council Authorities made a memorandum of understanding with the Lock-up owners assuring them that the lock-ups would be given back in the New market so that the owners would resume business in line with the 49 year occupational permits they had been given.
However, a section of traders is protesting the new guidelines which deny them re-possession of the lock-ups.
According to the resettlement guidelines, the Kabale Municipal Council is the landlord in the new market, and unlike the previous arrangement, everyone else will be a tenant.
In a meeting with officials from the Ministry of local governments on Friday last week, the Kabale Central Market Traders Association led by Canon Joshua Mutekanga accused the Government of issuing guidelines that disregard the M.O.U they made with Kabale Municipal Council.

One of the former Lock-up owners, Owen Kasimba argued that the Government was supposed to compensate them for the remaining time on their occupational permits if the lock-ups were to be fully owned by the Kabale Municipal Council.
Kasimba said they had obtained bank loans to buy the lock-ups which cost them between 48-70 million, while others built new structures in the old market.
Benjamin Mayanja, protested the guideline allocating only one lock-up for each vendor saying that some of them owned five- six lock-ups in the old market.
Richard Muhanguzi said they were ready to seek court redress challenging the new guidelines if Government was not willing to amend them.
However, Prossy Tuhireirwe the Community Development Program Assistant at the Minsitry of Local Government MATIP Project, said that the New Guidelines were binding and not amendable because they had been reviewed by vendors across the country, before they were approved by the solicitor general and finally signed by the permanent secretary.
The Kabale Municipality Mayor Sentaro Byamugisha read a letter in which he had written to office of the Attorney general requesting for guidance on the matter concerning the M.O.U in which they made with former lock-up owners.