Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has decided to register street vendors and hawkers in Kampala as well as return vendors their merchandise that was confiscated as they were being evicted from the streets.
The revelation by the Minister for Kampala and Metropolitan Affairs Hajjat Minsa Kabanda followed a meeting with KCCA officials and leaders of vendors from different associations.
The Minister said that the registration is intended to help the authority ascertain the exact number of vendors, who will be relocated to different divisions to benefit from government programs.
Before the meeting started, there was a scuffle among the different association members each accusing the other of hypocrisy and abandoning the vendors.
On this basis, Dorothy Kisaka, the KCCA Executive Director asked the vendors to form a unified leadership to ease the authority’s efforts to support them and also to streamline communication.
Kisaka also asked the vendors to embrace the smart city because it is not only to help them but even other people who live in the city.
Hamis Kanyike, a vendor requested KCCA to allocate them specific streets, where they can operate after 5 pm, as well as opening the Sunday market.
The vendors also raised concern about the highhandedness of the KCCA enforcement officers who manhandled them during the eviction.
