The Kwahu West Municipal Assembly has on Thursday, April 23, 2020, shut down shops outside the Nkawkaw market center to help decongest the market against coronavirus pandemic.
The decision follows a fact-finding visit by the Public Health Emergency Committee (PHEC) of the Kwahu West Municipal Assembly on 21st April 2020 to the central Market to monitor compliance to the Social Distancing directive being implemented in all markets and public spaces in the country.
According to the Assembly, the Committee established that owners of shops on the outside of the Nkawkaw Central Market building have blatantly refused to comply with the directive by the Kwahu West Public Health Emergency Committee to eject petty traders they are accommodating at the spaces in front of their shops.
At an emergency meeting by the Public Health Emergency Committee after the fact-finding visit, the following decisions have been taken as part of efforts to enforce strict compliance of the social distancing protocols announced by the President to prevent an outbreak of the COVID-19 disease in the Kwahu West Municipality. Consequently:
1. All shops on the outside of the Nkawkaw Central Market building are to be closed down from 6:00am Thursday, April 23, 2020, until further notice.
2. Any deviant shop owner who acts contrary to the directive given does so at his or her own risk.
3. All petty traders who hitherto were selling in front of the shops outside of the Central Market building and who own selling spaces inside the central market are to move back to their allotted spaces in the market or forfeit them.
4. All others who do not have spaces in the main market are to report to the Kwahu West Municipal Assembly to be allotted space at the Central Market Annex.
The Assembly clarified that “for the avoidance of doubt, this directive does not apply to the Kwahu Rural Bank or any other Financial Institution operating at the Central market, Kenkey, rice and other cooked food sellers who have their Independent spaces for selling outside the Central Market.”
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Obed Ansah
