Vendors at Mbale main market are complaining over the blackout of power for over a month now after the transformer blew off, bring business to a standstill since most business needs electricity.

According to Penina Nawola, a saloonist at the market says that she is using the paraffin lump to provide light so to enable customers to identify her saloon. Penina also added that the blackout has gradually dropped her earning from 100,000/= per day to 10,000/= at times without since saloon depends on electricity which has made it difficult to pay school fees and rent.

Ssebina amazing repairs phones in the market says life is really hard for him as his work needs power a lot, and now all his 3 kids are not at school and then he has also failed to pay back the soft loan of Shs 200000 that he borrowed from the bank. He also asserted that the vendors cleared their bills but it the market administration that did not pay umeme.

The chairman Mbale main market Mr madoi Ayub says the blackout has made his people suffer and reducing their income earnings as a result of the transformer blowing off. He says as a chairman he receives lots of complaints from bank officials reporting cases of the vendors who have taken off without paying the loans and yet as the chairman he had signed as a guarantor prior to taking loans, but all this he blames on not having power in the market for more than a month now.

He is now appealing to the government through the minister of energy to help them secure a transformer because they can not afford to buy one.