{"id":555,"date":"2017-03-02T07:16:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T07:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.landnet.ug\/landwatch\/?p=555"},"modified":"2017-03-02T09:31:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T09:31:07","slug":"traders-evicted-from-owino-park-yard-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/traders-evicted-from-owino-park-yard-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Traders evicted from owino park yard market."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traders and vendors of Owino park yard market woke up today to the shocking realization that their\u00a0market had been cordoned off by Uganda Police forces.\u00a0 These traders had previously been given 30 days to vacate the land that the market sat on\u00a0so that redevelopment of Nakivubo Stadium would commence, however 10 days before the eviction deadline elapsed they found themselves dispossessed of this land with much of their property confiscated.<\/p>\n<p>The traders were ordered on the 7th February by the Minister for Kampala Hon. Beti Olive Kamya to vacate the premises after an agreement was reached between City Businessman Ham Kiggundu of Ham Enterprise limited and the trustees of the Nakivubo War Memorial stadium to redevelop the Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>This eviction came only a week after the deputy Lord Mayor for Kampala Hon. Sarah Kanyike stayed the eviction of the traders until KCCA found a suitable piece of land where they would be transferred, this stay of eviction pronounced after the vendors petitioned Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago over the dispute.<\/p>\n<p>The parkyard traders informed KCCA that they had plans to redevelop the property themselves since they had large number of occupants from whom funds could be raised for redevelopment however this did little to help their situation since they were informed by the Kampala Deputy Lord Mayor Hon. Sarah Kanyike that the land in dispute belonged to the Nakivubo War Memorial trust and not to the Kampala City Council Authority.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_556\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-556\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-556 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Demolished-Ownio-Parkyard.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Demolished-Ownio-Parkyard.jpg 600w, https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Demolished-Ownio-Parkyard-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial view of owino park yard market shortly after demolition work commenced.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Eviction in the park yard market has come as a serious blow to the traders because many of them had taken out\u00a0bank loans for the products they had in their stalls, a move that is going to leave them highly indebted. This eviction will also leave over 10,000 traders jobless at a time when the Ugandan economy is reported to be slowing down, leaving a large number of these traders financially\u00a0vulnerable since for many of them the market was their only source of income.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traders and vendors of Owino park yard market woke up today to the shocking realization that their\u00a0market had been cordoned off by Uganda Police forces.\u00a0 These traders had previously been given 30 days to vacate the land that the market sat on\u00a0so that redevelopment of Nakivubo Stadium would commence, however 10 days before the eviction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[59,64,63,32,65,66,62,61,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landnet.ug\/landwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}