A dead bouquet of flowers and an empty podium are all that’s left in the big and empty marquee tent behind Shepherd Bushiri’s hotel.
Despite the tight security at the gate of the Sparkling Waters Hotel and Spa gate, operations at the business are on an obvious go-slow. At the gate, the security requests visitors to state the reasons for their visit before screening and allowing them to enter.It is pay day and there is a total of four cars parked in the visitors’ parking lot.
On Wednesday, only one of the two restaurants in the hotel was open for business. “It gets busier here over weekends. Two weeks ago, we had a beautiful wedding here with 120 guests,” one of the waiters says.