Mbale: Food vendors up in arms as market chokes on garbage
GERALD MATEMBU
Food vendors along Kumi road market in Mbale have expressed dissatisfaction over failure by authorities to remove stinking garbage.
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The garbage which has piled into a semi mountain is said to have accumulated over a period of four years.
Efforts to seek the intervention of authorities have been futile.
Nile Post has learnt that the vendors pay Shs 2000 per week to towards garbage management but the garbage is instead dumped within the market.
The garbage has become a health hazard especially to the food vendors.
Mbale municipality town clerk Paul Batanda placed the responsibility on the division authorities whom he blamed for not doing their part.
Batanda also attributed the problem to inadequate local revenue which has seen the municipality and its lower local governments struggle to offer basic services such as garbage collection, sweeping streets among others.
