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Kabagarame Pork Market on fire
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DEVELOPING STORY: Kabagarame, a renowned weekly pork market in Bushenyi-Ishaka Municipality, has been burnt down by yet-to-be-identified people. Residents were woken up in the middle of the night by the noise and fire that gutted the grass-thatched huts. When our reporters arrived to capture pictures, the police had not yet reached the scene, and there were no further details about the cause of the fire.
This means this Saturday there might be no Pork at Kabagarame
More details will be updated as they unfold.
Kabagarame market
About Kabagarame
Kabagarame is located in Ruharo ward, Buashenyi –Ishaka municipality off Bushenyi –Mbarara highway about 1 km from the main road. The market started in 1995. It was started by two gentlemen, John Barugahare and Nshemereirwe Paulino who were popular butchers in the area then. They built only one hut but overtime several huts have been raised in the same area. The word Kabagarame came from one of the enthusiastic who was a strong man called Beitomwe Muraahi known as Kamurye whose popular saying gave this place a name never to be forgotten. He used to say “abantu kubaramare kurya empunu baze omukishaayi bagarame” which literally means that after people have enjoyed pork they should go in the football pitch putting up their stomachs and relax while facing the sky. 
People normally enjoy pork and kalo at Kabagarame
The number started to increase slowly by slowly and what started as a simple village meeting turned into a fully-fledged weekly happening place for groups of friends, civil servants who work in the local government of Bushenyi ,families and other people who come from as far as from Kampala, Kabale, Mbarara and all over the country who come together and feast on pork every single Saturday. The main motive of all the people is to come and enjoy pork.
