21.   The council has also built a new hawker centre to house petty traders.

22.   The corporations, SMIs, petty traders and small businesses are integral parts of the economy.

23.   The gestures reflect the importance placed by the Government on SMIs, small businesses and petty traders.

24.   The reason is simply that SMIs and petty traders do not move or shake markets.

25.   There is adequate legislation to ensure that hawkers and petty traders keep their act clean.

26.   They are mostly fishermen, farmers and petty traders.

27.   Years of civil war and neglect devastated Kampala, creating an army of petty traders, vendors and hawkers selling everything from imported electrical goods to toothpaste and shoelaces.

28.   Which is another issue prevalent among petty traders and stall-holders.

29.   Since February, thousands of petty traders have been travelling to Poland, Lithuania and Germany to stock up on jeans and liquor.