Kisenyi’s New Ovino Market shops ready
Jul 29, 2009
THE $19m (about sh20b) Tirupati’s New Ovino Market complex is ready for use, a top official announced last week.<br>“For us, we have done our part and finished. You can see even the internal road is now complete.
By Mikaili Sseppuya
THE $19m (about sh20b) Tirupati’s New Ovino Market complex is ready for use, a top official announced last week.
“For us, we have done our part and finished. You can see even the internal road is now complete.
“Fina and Equity banks are also just putting up finishing touches to their premises,†Miraj Barot, the group marketing manager, told reporters during the site tour.
“We are encouraging those who bought shops to take them over. Many of them have already got titles and certificates of possession.
“So they have no problem,†he added.
Barot said most of the shops; about 80% of the 500 outlets, had been bought by different people.
He disclosed that some of the shop owners were reselling them under the condominium concept.
Independent investigations, however, indicated that some of the owners of the 350 shops were waiting for the road leading to the market to be repaired before settling in.
“It is difficult to start business when the road passing here is in this state because people cannot reach the place.
“The building will become brown and dusty in a week if the road stays as potholed as it is, which will defeat the purpose of investing in new shops.
“The road needs to be done then one can decide what business to deal in because now one simply cannot imagine how our customers could ever reach us and take away merchandise when the road is impassable,†said a shop owner. Kisenyi Road, which passes through the new premises, is practically impassable.
Some areas are badly worn out that it is impossible to believe that there was once tarmac there.
President Yoweri Museveni, who visited the mall in April, commended the Tirupati Group for uplifting Kisenyi.
Ministers and various officials including city mayor Nasser Ssebaggala, and the central division chairman, Godfrey Nyakana, have promised to develop the road but there is so far nothing on the ground to prove that promise.
THE $19m (about sh20b) Tirupati’s New Ovino Market complex is ready for use, a top official announced last week.
“For us, we have done our part and finished. You can see even the internal road is now complete.
“Fina and Equity banks are also just putting up finishing touches to their premises,†Miraj Barot, the group marketing manager, told reporters during the site tour.
“We are encouraging those who bought shops to take them over. Many of them have already got titles and certificates of possession.
“So they have no problem,†he added.
Barot said most of the shops; about 80% of the 500 outlets, had been bought by different people.
He disclosed that some of the shop owners were reselling them under the condominium concept.
Independent investigations, however, indicated that some of the owners of the 350 shops were waiting for the road leading to the market to be repaired before settling in.
“It is difficult to start business when the road passing here is in this state because people cannot reach the place.
“The building will become brown and dusty in a week if the road stays as potholed as it is, which will defeat the purpose of investing in new shops.
“The road needs to be done then one can decide what business to deal in because now one simply cannot imagine how our customers could ever reach us and take away merchandise when the road is impassable,†said a shop owner. Kisenyi Road, which passes through the new premises, is practically impassable.
Some areas are badly worn out that it is impossible to believe that there was once tarmac there.
President Yoweri Museveni, who visited the mall in April, commended the Tirupati Group for uplifting Kisenyi.
Ministers and various officials including city mayor Nasser Ssebaggala, and the central division chairman, Godfrey Nyakana, have promised to develop the road but there is so far nothing on the ground to prove that promise.