Mbarara City requires Ugx200m to organize maiden mega festival

Mbarara City requires Ugx200m to organize maiden mega festival

By Our Reporter
Mbarara – The 3rd and 4th December will be remarkable days in the history of Mbarara city as they welcome the city status which they received on 2nd July 2020. In this regard, the city have a budget of about about Ugx200m plus purposely for the festival.
Last week, Mbarara city top leadership met with the key stakeholders at Igongo Cultural Center on an arrangement to share ideas towards the preparation of Mbarara city festival.
Some of the key stakeholders that attended include CEO’s of top companies, Bank managers, leaders of traders in the district, heads of security and other political leaders from the city.
According to the organizers, the festival that will occur on 3rd and 4th December 2022, and the two-day event will include a symposium which will take place at Igongo cultural center on 3rd, there after, there will be a convoy that will drive from Igongo and pass through Mbarara city up to the venue for the carnival that will take place around high street and Mbaguta street.
On 4th, there will be exhibition at Kakyeka stadium where there will be a trade show, and other activities of showcasing what Mbarara and Ankole at large offers.
The purpose of the function, and what it introduces is a new creation of a regional city which is a higher local government.
“We had expected to host the East African Trade Show come December this year, we had competed for this with other cities that include Gulu City and also the central government. The team of assessors came and visited us but after several meetings they decided that let this trade  show be hosted by Kampala or central government. So we said fine, we did not desire to lose out but we were also having an alternative that let us have our own festival of welcoming the city, we had wanted the trade show to help us do the display or exhibition of Mbarara in an  international media but when it failed we said let us have this festival and do exactly what the East African trade show was to do, only that the other one was for East Africa, and this is Mbarara,”  Richard Mugisha, the Mbarara city deputy Town Clerk explained.
He added that the part of the festival is a business angle and there is going to be exhibitions, trade shows within the festival celebrations.
He also confirmed that they are trying as council to make it an annual event so that every year the festival is celebrated in a way of remembering when Mbarara became a city.
According to Joseline Kiconco, the Mbarara city commercial officer, and organising committee chairperson on behalf of Mbarara ,  the budget for the festival is over Ugx200m  in order to have a well organised festival, and the city is soliciting for the money from partners like MTN, Uganda Breweries Ltd, NTV Uganda , Abahumuza, and others that are coming on board.
Kiconco further said that as council they allocated about  50M to support the festival activities. She implored well wishers of the city to come on board and contribute towards the festival to be successful because the budget is huge.
 Advertisement for the festival is about Ugx100m, public address system Ugx70m, and other activities that need money to have a colourful festival according to Kiconco.
Robert Mugabe Kakyebezi, the Mbarara city Mayor confirmed that the Speaker of Parliament Anite Among is expected as the chief guest at the festival. That she will be accompanied by other ministers including the minister of local  government Raphael Magyezi.
He said that the purpose of the festival is to learn more and have change of mindset to show the public that they are ready to fight poverty.
Kakyebezi called upon companies, institutions, and other entities to be part of the festival and and contribute towards the festival cause.

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