Masese traders to be relocated
Dec 31, 2004
AT least 1,000 fishmongers and market traders at Masese landing site will soon be relocated to a new market being constructed.
By Patrick Jaramogi
AT least 1,000 fishmongers and market traders at Masese landing site will soon be relocated to a new market being constructed.
The US$100,000 (about sh174m) Egyptian government-funded landing site at Masese will be complete in two weeks, the head of mission of the Egyptian irrigation department in Uganda, Dr. Ahmed Ragab, said on Monday.
“We got a request from Uganda to construct the landing site in Masese and we started work two weeks ago. We hope to hand over to the Ministry of Agriculture in two-weeks time,†he said during a visit to the site.
Ragab said the site would be used to relocate the fish mongers who occupy the site where the African Development Corporation (an Egyptian firm) would construct a boat and ship assembling plant.
The project is under the Uganda-Egypt Aquatic Weed Control Project.
The commissioner for fisheries, Dick Nyeko, Jinja town clerk David Kigenyi Naluwayiro and the site engineer, Ragab Said, attended the briefing in Jinja.
AT least 1,000 fishmongers and market traders at Masese landing site will soon be relocated to a new market being constructed.
The US$100,000 (about sh174m) Egyptian government-funded landing site at Masese will be complete in two weeks, the head of mission of the Egyptian irrigation department in Uganda, Dr. Ahmed Ragab, said on Monday.
“We got a request from Uganda to construct the landing site in Masese and we started work two weeks ago. We hope to hand over to the Ministry of Agriculture in two-weeks time,†he said during a visit to the site.
Ragab said the site would be used to relocate the fish mongers who occupy the site where the African Development Corporation (an Egyptian firm) would construct a boat and ship assembling plant.
The project is under the Uganda-Egypt Aquatic Weed Control Project.
The commissioner for fisheries, Dick Nyeko, Jinja town clerk David Kigenyi Naluwayiro and the site engineer, Ragab Said, attended the briefing in Jinja.