By Charles Mukalazi
Kampala, Uganda (RTN) - Most marketeers who were operating within different markets of Kampala city and the metropolitan have decided to vend along road streets of the city. This is has followed the president’s decision to ease the lockdown which had stood for over three months. In the due process, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni decided to let some businesses like shops, public transport among other work which also included market vendors who operate in food products to open up but all these had to fulfill the conditions of washing the hands, putting on masks and maintaining social distancing.
This could not let markets operate normally like before because the number of these traders before the pandemic was very big which caused crowdedness. With the need to observe the scientific working of social distancing, most traders were technically forced out of the markets which lef
t them with no option but to look for other places where they could put their small businesses.
The Mengo-Wakaliga road street is now full of vendors who keep on calling customers who pass by to buy their products which are well displayed. The most sold are the food products like tomatoes and other vegetables. They are quite doing well with social distancing but what worries is that some of the pedestrians try to fit in clothes and put them back which can lead to the spread of Corona virus.
Some of them say that they do not want to disobey the directives of the ministry of health but still they have to work for survival and only to find their way along road sides. They have left the market places and they have been joined by the non food traders/hawkers who have also decided to display their products along road sides and they think working in any way in any place is the best option.
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