Julius Kabwisho, a resident of Kakiika division has welcomed the arrest of the suspects. According to Kabwisho, unidentified machete wielding thugs waylaid him last week and made off with his mobile phone and Shillings 100,000.
The dealers and leaders that despite the fact that the Municipality has got hundreds of pork joints, the meat consumed by locals is not monitored and that this puts their lives at risk.
Michael Tusiime, the MP Mbarara Municipality, who was tasked to forward the council resolution to the Ministry, says the municipality faces a lot of challenges due to lack of transparency.
Despite being a beneficiary under the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructural Development USMID Project that has seen four roads upgraded to to tarmac, Mbarara still faces a challenge of bad roads whose state deteriorates every other day.
Kenneth Byarugaba, a resident of Kamukuzi in Kamukuzi division, says some of the streets kids move armed with sticks and knives, which exposes residents to danger.
In 2001, Mbarara Municipal council requested Ministry of Water and Environment to grant it permission to occupy Ruti block one and Rwemitongole block two in Mbarara Central Reserve forest.
The 11th edition of the Brookside East Africa Secondary Schools games could not have kicked off at a more opportune time for the business community in Mbarara than this period.