The state of business performance at the new and modern Kigali city market ( formerly Nyarugenge Market)is appalling following several complaints from traders of lack of clients.
City dwellers are reluctant to entering the mega complex claiming they don’t like going through the security check points and scanners at entry points.
The traders have also told IGIHE that they are failing to make any substantial sales of their products thus unable to pay montlhy rent for their shops in the Modern complex.
That they find themselves still having the products they started with in February due to lack of clients.
Traders say that after moving into the new market they expected more clients because there was more order but the situation didn’t really go as they expected, instead the number of clients dropped.
“Clients choose not to enter the building for fear of walking through security machines and metal detectors. Also there is less packing space,” Said Cancilde Mukashema a trader at the market.
Through observation, women don’t appreciate the fact that their handbags are checked, they tend turn back back whenever they are asked to open their handbags.
Mukashema said people carrying large sums of moneey are not willing to open their bags adding that they would rather go to other places in the city where they arent subjected to security checks.
Others outside the market told IGIHE that they fear entering the complex because its modernly furnished thus assume that products sold in there are expensive.
A survey showed that there are more empty stalls and shop spaces in the mega complex because some traders left to setup their business in other parts of the city.
Leave a Reply