Police, army thwart plans to burn central market

By Gaster Bamwange

Jinja - Persistent leadership wrangles at the central market have degenerated into a security menace amid threats of torching the facility, prompting the intervention of police and military police.

The acrimonious situation, which has thrown government officials, the vendors and town dwellers into panic, was sparked off by the 2009 forceful eviction from office of the then chairman of the Jinja central market vendors’ association Matia Lubowa, ostensibly for

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