The rift comes a week after the City authorities accompanied by security personnel stopped leaders in Bardege Division from allocating space to accommodate vendors that were last month evicted from major streets.
According to the resolution, the weekly markets will be held every Wednesday and Friday along Ring Road in Pece-Layibi division and Bardege-Layibi division respectively.
More than 600 vendors trading in different merchandise turned up expecting to acquire space but the exercise ended shortly after heavily armed police officers stormed the area in their patrol vehicles and asked all the people to leave.
Last month, the city authorities forcefully kicked hundreds of vendors from the major streets of the city center citing they were illegally operating. Others evicted included roadside bus operators, pickups, and tricycle operators along Gulu-Kampala Highway.
Isiah Tumwesigye, Gulu City Council Clerk told Uganda Radio Network in an interview that the operation is aimed at restoring trade sanity along the major streets within the city center.
The plan according to UWA officials is an addition to the current 30 kilometers of electric fence being installed around the National Park boundary with community lands in Oyam and Nwoya Districts.
Philip Polly Okin Ojara, the Chua West legislator told journalists at a press briefing on Monday in Gulu City that it was unwise for the government to keep injecting money into a venture that is not bringing in any returns.
Richard Omony, a businessman in Elegu Town Council, says that buses had started crossing into South Sudan from Uganda but noted that many people weren’t yet sure of their safety.
The region hasn’t received adequate rainfall for more than a month now, leaving many farmers distraught as their crops waste away. The crops mainly affected include maize, rice, beans, and groundnuts that were planted in the first farming season.
Santo Obura, the Manager of Gulu Market Sacco, who owns an office in the Northern section of the market says accessibility has remained their biggest challenge ever since the market was opened.
On Monday, Tumwesigye re-echoed to Uganda Radio Network in an interview that they will not relent on the new directive that seeks to ensure traders utilize the available designated business spaces.
Last week, Gulu City Clerk Isiah Tumwesigye issued a directive to the public banning businesses along the streets, pavements, walkways, verandahs, backstreets, and corridors within the city effective July 1.
Solomon Balemezi, a civil and structural engineer at Total Energies told Uganda Radio Network in an interview that the contractor has already hit 68 percent works on enabling infrastructural works.
Isiah Tumwesigye, the Town Clerk of Gulu City says that no businesses shall be allowed to operate on the pavements, walkways, shops verandas, backstreets, and corridors.
According to Anywar, with the rollout of the government’s initiative aimed at alleviating poverty, beneficiaries who have taken up agriculture must consider value addition in order to address household poverty.
Gulu LCV Chairperson Christopher Opiyo Ateker says past government programs initiated to eradicate poverty across the country failed to yield fruits owing to the government’s failure to reprimand beneficiaries who default on paying back revolving funds.
Dr. Amina Hersi Moghe, the Chief Executive Officer of Horyal Investments Holding Company Ltd, the entity behind Atiak Sugar Factory on Monday confirmed the closure of the factory in an interview with URN but noted it was temporary.
Muntu told URN during an interview from Gulu City that numerous by-elections in the country have been marred with arrogance and violence perpetrated by the state security agencies and hooligans.
Florence Akello, one of the women who prepared dried vegetable with sim-sim paste (ojede), said that the dish is not only easy to prepare but inputs also last for long, its preparation is fast, it is healthy, and requires no extra ingredients.
In his Sunday homily at Holy Rosary Church, Reverend Father Uma, said that the President`s statement is not welcome noting that it is an indication of not being mindful of the suffering people amidst ululations, cheers, and handclaps from the congregation.
