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St Balikuddembe Market (Owino Market)
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So today we are reviewing St. Balikuddembe or call it Owino Market.
This is the busiest market in Kampala, which sprawls around the Nakivubo Stadium, near the taxi parks. Here you can find all sorts of goods for sale, but it is most popular with travelers for its wide range of second-hand clothes from Europe, Asia and the USA. Bargain hard, as they tend to raise the prices times two or more.
The best bargain exercise is if the asking price is let’s say 10,000shs, it is better you start from quarter way the price of 2,500 such that as the negotiations meet you two in the middle.
St Balikuddembe Market is shares a boundary with Nakivubo Stadium and is within working distance to the tax and bus terminals. It is in the center of the central business Areas of Kampala City.
St Balikuddembe market was started in 1971 with 320 vendors who were reallocated by Kampala City Council from Nakasero Market to this site. The City Council named the new market; Municipal Market which was later renamed by vendors to Owino Market after an old man called Owino whom the vendors found on the site roasting maize and sweet potatoes. The market started as a wholesale market for farmers produce with aim of supplying other markets in Kampala and surrounding areas. Over time the market has diversified into other lines of business to include garments, shoes, scrap, cooked food, chicken and meat to mention but a few.
The initial structures of Owino market were made of papyrus, which were replaced by iron sheets before permanent structures were built.
Owino or St. Balikudembe Market is the biggest open market in Uganda and possibly in East Africa.
It is built on about 7 hectares of land with time, it has become overcrowded, forcing some of the vendors to move out to the expansive parking yard belonging to Nakivubo War Memorial Stadium.
The vendors and traders are in excess of 50,000 vendors, 70% of whom are women. At least 300,000 customers visit the market on a daily basis and the number of customers increases over the weekend and a few days before a public holiday.
When the market started in the 1971, it was owned and managed by Kampala City Council (KCC) which is now KCCA. The vendors and traders under St Balikudembe Market Stalls, Space and Lockup Shops Owners Association Ltd (SSLOA) are in the process of obtaining a sub-lease from Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA).
OWINO market, was renamed St. Balikudembe market, after one of the Uganda Martyrs Joseph Mukasa Balikudembe who was born in 1860 and killed on the 15th November 1885 by King Mwanga II of Buganda.
John Ssebaana Kizito, was the chief guest at the renaming ceremony held on Saturday at the Owino shrine. The name, St. Balikudembe, was proposed by the Uganda Martyrs Guild, a committee charged with the responsibility of making Uganda Martyrs known by Christians all over the world.
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