It’s half past ten of the
morning, I am at Nyabugogo bus park . The
place is very crowded. The people are in
hurry, some are getting in buses whereas others getting out of buses and hurry
to their respective directions . Some take buses which are leading to different parts of the city
like Kimisagara , Remera , Gikondo ,
Kimironko and Gisozi . Really it shows that each and everyone has his
particular direction. On the other hand there are passengers who are hurrying
to shops , other carry the luggage from shops around the park to transport agencies .I approached one of them his name is Kabera Eric , a passenger from Gicumbi .He is
a Trader in his local market of Gicumbi
.He uses to buy goods mainly food
rice , sugars , flour at Kigali
especially in Nyabugogo .He tries to
give us an image of Nyabugogo bus park,
the challenges and his suggestions.
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passenger Kabera
Kabera ERIC shares his
reason to come to Kigali with many other
passengers. That shows how the going and coming of passengers means a lot to
business development in Nyabugogo bus park and there around . Business owners in Nyabugogo bus park are
the ones to testify more about the passengers ‘meaning to their everyday
business. Even people who come to Kigali for other activities, it is usual that
they buy various things in Nyabugogo
shops . Ntawuronka Theoneste sells clothes and shoes he says that these
passengers are their prime clients. They buy things before their departure or
after their arrival in Kigali.
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of NTAWURONKA THEO
The success of business
in Nyabugogo bus park, seems to have a wide connection with the crowd of
passengers, drivers and many more people
who use the park . This hypothesis made me
to go in deep by asking
other people hold business
activities around Nyabugogo to know much
about the feasibility of the business in Nyabugogo bus park .It is also in the
context to know if NTAWURONKA THEONESTE shares the same business situation with others .
Now the conversation with
other business activities concerns about
:why they preferred to set their business
in Nyabugogo bus park . And who are their main clients.
Mufora Hamadi
the owner of mini –market with foods and soft drinks, Francois and Nahimana Christo Benjamin
owners of phone shop. Decided to start their activities
in Nyabugogo because they think that the place where are many people are likely
to have more clients.
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Mufora+ Kizito+ Francois
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NYABUGOGO
BUS PARK AFTER THE SHIFT OF ALL TRANSPORT COMPANIES FROM KIGALI CITY CENTER.
The current Historical background of Nyabugogo bus park shows that
it was rehabilitated in order to
accommodate transport agencies which had been working
at Kigali city centre known as Rubangura place .This is the decision
taken as one of the strategies towards
an efficient transport system in Kigali
city . The shift of these cars affected business owners at Kigali centre because
the owners of commercial activities at Kigali centre lost passengers who were
their prime clients . On the other side
the people with activities around Nyabugogo bus park , benefited the shift of these transport agencies . Nowadays those who
hold business in Nyabugogo bus park are
talking about the profit from
this shift .
Nkurunziza Baraka the shoes ‘shop owner , Havugimana Jean Bosco owner of bags’shop
and Maniraguha Olivier airtime
seller, said that the shift of buses from Kigali centre to Nyabugogo bus park near their shops increased their income , in other words the clients got increased
.
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Maniraguha Olivier + Havugimana Jean bosco …..
The shift of buses , is
the transport system initiated by Rwandan government in collaboration with Rwanda Utility
Regulatory Agency known as RURA .Really the system seems to be efficient and
productive to the people . Young
entrepreneurs were not let behind. For them, they profited the shift of transport agencies from Kigali city centre to Nyabugogo
bus park to launch businesses .
Byukusenge Odille a girl with 22 years old she
sells MTN airtime in Nyabugogo bus park .She says that in case of many passengers she gets 3000 Rwandan francs per day .Whatever the case she can’t earn less than 1000
Rwandan francs per day . She is proud of her job and she is comfortable with
the money she earns per day. She is inviting other young to think about what to
do in order to get money to help themselves and their family.
Clip Byukusenge Odilla
When you listen to testimonies
from some young people , you may think that is not possible. But when
you keep on watching the movement of the
passengers who are the main clients of different businesses set up in Nyabugogo
, you
start believing what you are told
.
Jean Paul Rwigema is a
barber, he operates from Nyabugogo hair
salon .He says that he earns between
5000 and 10000 Rwandan Francs per day.This income is quite extraordinary and it requires much
efforts .
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Paul Rwigema
Though almost all the
people I talked with, especially business owners nearby Nyabugogo bus park said about the benefit of the park to their businesses. Some
drivers who used to park in Nyabugogo
before the shift of buses from Kigali centre to Nyabugogo bus park , said
that the shift had affected their income because
passengers prefer to travel by transport agencies which are
more comfortable.
Rwigaba Sam and
Nicola are drivers they are
talking about the role of Nyabugogo to their job. It easily connect them with
passengers, but always the agencies have caused a decrease in the number
of passengers to their small taxis .
Clip Rwigaba Sam + Nicola
Nyabugogo bus park is the arrival and departure place of
more than 25 transport
agencies working in provinces and the neighboring countries
.These transport agencies are like Gaga coach
(Kigali-bujumbura ) and Jaguar
(kampala- Kigali)
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Apparently the park is
progressively getting incapable to accommodate such a big number of buses. This
is easy to notice on special time like at the beginning or at the end of
week-end. The time on which many people travel to their families for break or to their respective place of working
.
Here is on Friday it is
around a quarter to seven evening buses are arriving at Kigali
carrying passengers from provinces, they come
for week-end. At the same time
the huge number of buses are departing to different directions of the country they
carry passengers who go to their home for the week-end.
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Traffic jams police whistling
This is how the
situation is. It is such a traffic jam, it is hard for cars to move, there
are a quite crowd of passengers and many buses .Some drivers prefer to stop their
buses about 10 minutes to wait for buses in front to get into main road, the
action which is difficult due to the big number of cars coming from Kigali
center to different part of the city .
This situation is also
being suspected by some business owners in Nyabugogo bus park.They say that there
are no appropriate building for commercial activities.
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Icyifuzo cya Aimable
The rainy period comes
with disasters to the park. It causes floods, this shows the necessity for the new construction plan of
the park .
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Icyifuzo kuri flooding
After suggestions of the
people I talked with, after listening to their challenges and their wishes, I talked to authorities to know their views
about Nyabugogo bus park and what they expect to do . Rubangisa
Rwigema is operation manager of
the wide company vision in charge
of security and cleanness in the park .He is talking about how they guarantee the security in the park .
Clip : Rubangisa
security
The low capacity of Nyabugogo
bus park to accommodate the big number
of buses was the main issue for
the people we talked with. How do the authorities see this issue ? what
do they do to solve some problems
resulted by this insufficiency of the
space ? Rubangisa Rwigema continues
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Rubangisa capacity of the park
Nkurunziza Alex is the authority in charge of
the Rural planning in Nyarugenge district. He says that all problems concerning the park, are taken
into consideration and some of the envisaged solution is to look for another
place where the half of agencies would park since it is hard to get a
wide place to accommodate the entire cars entering in Kigali . And they
are encouraging people to invest in
building modern houses nearby the park to promote commercial sector.
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As shown by interviewed
business owners in Nyabugogo bus park, their businesses or activities benefit a lot
from the crowd of Nyabugogo bus park’s passengers with different origin
, different destination , different purposes , and different needs .
MusicNarrator
Dear listeners, that is
how transport system is contributing to the business development in Nyabugogo
and in the country in general .you’ve heard
the benefits of the shop owners in the research , you’ve heard
also some challenges they are facing , and their
suggestions.
Referring to the success of the businesses
being carried out because of
Nyabugogo bus park, the authorities
in charge of this park must do their efforts to solve
problems like floods, small park
that result traffic jam and insufficient places for commercial
activities. all these highlighted problems seem to be obstacles which hinder the maximum
profitability of the park.
Shot Music
of easy come easy go
This is the end of our
documentary easing business through efficient transport system .
Ending with music + sound
of cars in Nyabugogo bus park.
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