Balloting exercise of Kisumu’s Uhuru Business Market Complex in the offing

 

The Uhuru Business Park Market Complex where its balloting exercise for it to be done next week and traders will be free to occupy it to do businesses-Photo Courtesy

By Dickson Odhiambo

November 4, 2021

Balloting exercise of Kisumu’s Uhuru Business Market Complex in the offing 

THE Much awaited balloting exercise of the Uhuru Business Park Market Complex in Kisumu City will be done next week on November 12.

Nyanza Regional Commissioner Magu Mutindika says the exercise will be carried out as from 10:00 am on the day schedule.

Addressing the press at his office in Kisumu, the Nyanza regional commissioner said the targeted persons on the issue of the balloting exercise for the Complex are the ones in the attached list which the Kisumu Central Sub County Deputy County Commissioner office has.

The Regional Commissioner says the balloting exercise is done because the complex has been completed and ready for occupation by the traders.

He says the balloting exercise will be done at the venue next to Jua Kali Artisan area, adding that the traders whose names are in the lists are expected to turn up and participate in the balloting exercise.

The Regional Commissioner says the Government is requesting all the validated business community who were genuinely validated from the area of Kisumu Port where they were removed to come on the day of balloting without fail.

“There was a special committee that was going round in genuinely identifying the business people who were operating at the Kisumu Port should equally not miss to come during the balloting exercise next week for the business Complex in Kisumu City,” Mutindika says.

Mutindika says this will be a game change for such business community because they will be allocated spaces for doing their businesses.

He says after the balloting exercise, all the traders will be able to occupy the spaces allocated to them immediately without fail.

“After the balloting exercise, we expect all those traders who have been allocated spaces to immediately occupy such spaces and do businesses without wasting any time,” he adds.

The Nyanza Regional Commissioner has directed that any kind of dispute or clarification should be forwarded to the office of the Deputy County Commissioner Kisumu Central Sub-County.

Controversy have been surrounding the allocation of spaces at the state-of –the art modern business complex where about 5,000 traders who were evicted from the Kisumu Port and other areas within Kisumu’s Central Business District since some traders have claimed that people whose stalls and premises were demolished made it to the list of beneficiaries.

This has reportedly contributed to the postponement of the official opening of the facility that has been constructed by the National Government under President Uhuru Kenyatta with the latest postponement done nearly a week ago.