Who is eating up Fort Portal’s Nyakimya wetland?

“We dump garbage, cover it with soil and start building stalls. We had to find our own way to survive,” one of the market vendors said. According to John Mulyabyoma, a local observer and former city employee, this practice started years ago as an improvised waste-disposal method.

Nyakimya wetland now hosts rows of wooden and makeshift stalls. Beneath their planks lies not soil, but layers of market garbage, banana peels, plastic bags and spoilt market produce.