A Combined Kumasi Central Market Traders Union (CKCMTU) has threatened to demonstrate against the government for refusing to continue the phase II of the Kumasi market redevelopment project.
The traders who indicated that some of them could not afford to relocate to the race course market and are currently still home hence losing out on their source of livelihood, is demanding the government finish the project as planned.
According to them “After December 2022, we have observed that things have come to a halt. There is no work going on at the site as observed in the past few months. From January 2023 to this time August 2023, weeds and reptiles have taken over the project”.
Indicating that phase I of the construction of the market was completed under former President John Dramani Mahama, which is now the Kejetia City market, the traders questioned why the Akufo-Addo-led New Patriotic Party (NPP) government which showed commitment to completing phase II has stalled the project.
“Why is the NPP, who has decided to do the phase II of the new construction, not working on it? Do we, as stakeholders, not deserve to be told what is going on or do we not deserve to get an explanation as to why the market has been halted?.
They have therefore, called on the government to give its members reasons for stalling the project, because some of them are at home awaiting the completion of the market to go back and do their business.
They have then threatened to embark on a demonstration should government fail to go back to the site.
