Kicukiro: Merchants in the Karugira market blame district officials to be reluctant in innovating the market

Tradesmen and women operating in the Karugira market located in Kicukiro district told Umuseke that the market being used currently does not fulfill all conditions allowing them to sell and take care of the clients harmoniously.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some of them say that during the rainy season, the working conditions become more complicated as the rain befell upon them, hindering easy and conducive transactions to be carried out.

Users of the Karugira market revealed to Umuseke that before being re-located to the new place, Kicukiro officials promised them to innovate Kigarama market where they have been working within 15 months but the promise remains vain.

Due to the impracticability of the Karugira market, some of the sellers chose to set up smaller shops nearby the main market as to avoid the above mentioned challenges, thus hindering the rest of the sellers to sell sustainably.

According to our statistics, the sellers are nearing the number of the 240 and all of them are urging the officials to materialize the promise they made in 2013 when they relocated them from Kigarama to Karugira.

Before the situation became unhelpful, all the sellers in Karugira market were around 500 but a big majority of them left it and headed somewhere where they feel comfortable, Beretride Kampire who is the manager of the Karugira market has  recently told Umuseke

The sellers said that they urge the district’s management to truly tell them when the whole works of innovating the Kigarama market will be fully implemented.

UM– USEKE.RW