KABAGARAME PORK MARKET CLOSED OVER CORONA VIRUS, TRADERS WORRIED ON HOW TO PAY LOANS

By Domisiano Ayebare
www.mknewslink.com
In Bushenyi

Traders of Kabagarame weekly pork market are worried on how they will pay back loans they acquired from financial institutions.
Some of them say they are likely to go to prison after they fail to pay these loans now that they do not have where to get money from.
Traders are worried after their market was directed to close following a directive by the president in a bid to curtail the spread of deadly corona virus
In a letter dated 19th March 2020 signed by the municipal town clerk William Makune and copied to all district authorities, the market was ordered to close for 32 days.
Now, traders are requesting banks to reduce on loan interests because they don’t have any source of income minus Kabagarame .
Innocent Mwebaze the chairman Kabagarame told www.mknewslink.com that they will have to follow a directive since it doe snot only affect Kabagarame but the whole country.
He noted that prevention is better than cure adding that Kabagarame attracts people from all corners of the country so one may not know what they may carry with them as far as the disease is concern.