Kabale Municipal Authority has defended its decision to construct a lorry park in the town centre.
The lorry park is located in central division, Kigongi ward on Kabale- Mbarara high way. The park starts in front of Manhattan hotel and extends to Shell petrol station near Katuna road roundabout.
Adrine Mbabazi, an employee of Kadio Hotel, which is next to the lorry park, says that it has blocked their businesses and the trailers station there for 24 hours. This, according to Mbabazi, pushes away their usual. She says that some trucks make a lot of noise at night and people sleeping in their lodges get inconvenienced.
Ben Magezi, the manager Manhattan Hotel says turning out their parking ground into a parking yard for trucks has made their clients to shun their businesses. He says they advised Municipal authorities in vain.
Magezi says they intend to stop paying council dues until their complaints are addressed.
As hotel owners cry foul, others have made profits out of it.
Two night clubs located near the parking yard are said to be enjoying the developments.
Bambocha and Oasis clubs operate seven days in a week and are ever as truck drivers and commercial sex workers attend on a daily basis.
Laurian Biryomumisho, the owner of new Oasis club says for them they are comfortable with the new developments.
He says their sales have doubled compared since the park was opened.
But Peter Matsiko, the Municipal town clerk says council had no option but to have the park in the congested area. Matsiko says council gets 15 million shillings from the parking yard, which revenue, he says, the council cannot get from the licenses of those businesspeople complaining.
