“You can’t shut down Kejetia Market” – CTA dares Management
The Combined Traders Association(CTA) of Kumasi City Market Limited (KCML) say Management of the market cannot close down the market.
Management of the Kumasi City Market Limited in their press release dated March 17, 2023, has stated that, the non affected area of the market will also be shut down for one week, starting from today, March 20, 2023.
The stated intercepted by Filasconews.com was signed by Nana Agyenim Boateng, Vice Chair of the Board of the market.
Which means, the whole market is shutting down for one week.
This according to the group calling itself the Combined Traders Association of the Market, is impossible.
They have vowed to resist any attempt from the management to close down the market for one week.
Read their full press statement below:
PRESS RELEASE BY COMBINED TRADERS ASSOCIATION OF KUMASI CITY MARKETS KEJATIA
RE: OPENING OF THE KEJATIA MARKET
Having sited a press release purporting to come from the Kumasi City Market board of directors, on the opening of the Kejatia market which have been extended for one extra week start Monday 20th March 2023, we wish to categorically state that we disagree with this vehemently. Let no one take we traders and transport operators for granted. It very clear since the board has a constant source of living they don’t care what source of livelihood the traders and transport operators depend on. Well, we wish to serve notice to the public that Kejatia will be open for trading on Monday. We will not accept the further one week closure.
We wish to put this questions forward
1. What did the board do with the numerous warnings from fire service, one of the copies of the warning letter attached to this release?
2. What is the board trying to hide from the public? Is it their incompetence or ineptitude or their reluctant to act and supervise effectively when they needed to do so?
3. So what have they done within the four (4) days so far when the market was closed down? We can confidently say when given one(1) full year they can’t do anything to help us.
4. Why is the board playing bromance with the management specifically the managing director? Is he their errands boy who does their bidding so they don’t want to touch him?
5. Why is the board Chairman and the managing director still at post after supervising this disaster? They must go now before we proceed.
6. We were told all the juicy stories about the Kejatia Market, is anyone trying to cover the lie they told us about the structural integrity of the market.
7. Has the board taken notice of the traders who deal in perishable goods and that even the three days has negative impact on the market.
8.How is the board going to compensate traders who by virtue of the closure will lose customers to stiff competitor around the Kejatia Market?
9.Is the board going to take responsibility of the daily earnings of traders?
10 For the number of days traders do not trade, will the management have the courage and boldness to ask for service charge from traders when the market is opened.
11. Where was the board who are told showing up as though they care so much and have been working so much when in actual fact they have been sleeping and allow Kejatia to deteriorate.
12. We have heard the repetition of the word structural integrity, wow, does the board really care about the structural engineer of Kejatia? Where were they when seven incidence of burst pipe lines destroy traders Wear for which 33 traders are in court with Kumasi city Market limited? Today, fire has expose them big time so they want to buy time and hide their shameful faces.
13. So what is the government lead by his Excellency Nana Addo Dankwah Akuffo Addo position on all this, do they really care about our woes? Does the president really care about the Kejatia economy in this difficult times of the nation? Does the president sleep comfortably while traders occupying over 800 shops with transport operators suffered this way? We are also part of people of Ghana ooh.
We are by this release calling on all traders and transport operators to come to work tomorrow Monday 20th March 2023, no one should stay home. Everyone should come along with red bans.
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Signed and Endorsed by:
(Traders Board Rep)
Mary Nkrumah 0244955264
(Kejatia Traders Association, Board Rep)
Anthony Kwabena Obeng
0244402098
(Concern Central Market Traders Association)
FRANK ANTWI
0243770790
(Kejatia petty Traders Association)*
Nana Akwasi Prempeh
0243272873
(Kejatia Traditional caterers Association)
Mrs Erica Anima Boansi
0243317759
(Eleven Member Steering Committee, KCTU)
Mr Daniel Ankamah
0506178189
(Federation of Kumasi Traders)
Kwabena Koduah
0203355596
(Eleven member steering committee,LBG)*
Kwabena Fosu
0243777417
(Kejatia Tenants Association)
Emmanuel Kyeremateng
0246697559
Communicators
Nana Prempeh- 0243272873
Frank Antwi-
0244461894
Patricia Acheampong
0546819156
Nana Yaw
0244126325
Ahmed Kwarteng
0543393393
Andy Coffie
0244592497
