The Kumasi Central Market rehabilitation project needs to be finished immediately, according to members of the Combined Kumasi Central Market Traders Association.
The traders and direct beneficiaries expressed unhappiness with the project’s current status and highlighted their worries regarding the contractor’s non-attendance at the site since January of last year.
The businessmen assert that their appeals have gone unanswered despite efforts to involve stakeholders, like as Ashanti Regional Minister Simon Osei Mensah. The association is requesting prompt action from Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II out of fear for their livelihoods.
Secretary of the Combined Kumasi Central Market Traders Union, Emelia Kwofie Asare, stated that, “We came the first time about a year ago with an appeal. This time, we are not appealing; we are demanding that it is done for us. It is our right, and we demand it. What we have come to know is that the NPP government is taking us for a joke. I think the NPP government keeps lying to us, and we are not taking this anymore. That is our message to the sitting government”.
“This is the stronghold of the NPP. We were looking at them; we were counting on them to work for us. That is why we voted them into power. Unfortunately, the Ashanti region is disappointed; Kumasi is disappointed, the central market is disappointed, traders of the Kumasi Combined Central Market Union are disappointed. So, we are going to act now and do what we think will please us… Now we are appealing to Otumfuo to rise and resurrect the central market. The NPP government has killed the central market. We are asking the Asantehene to raise it up again.”
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
