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Traders using Kasoa Zongo area given
ultimatum to quit
Winneba, March 20, GNA - The Awutu Effutu District Assembly
has given traders who have turned the Kasoa Zongo area into
a market up to April 2 to quit the area or face prosecution.
In a statement at Winneba on Monday, the Assembly said apart
from offenders being arraigned before the court and fined
their wares would be confiscated.
The statement said since the Assembly commissioned the new
market complex more than a year ago, some traders had
illegally turned the Kasoa Zongo Chief's palace and Mosque
area and part of the demolished old market into an
unauthorized trading centre.
It said that apart from undermining the operations of the
new market the unauthorized trading centre was costing the
Assembly a great deal of money in terms of revenue and
refuse collection.
According to the statement, within the past year, the
Assembly had spent more than 100 million cedis to collect
refuse generated by traders at the Zongo area.
It said all efforts to stop the illegal traders from
operating the Zongo area had failed adding that to resolve
the issue amicably the Assembly charged some key government
officials in the District including the District Director of
the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ)
and the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO)
and various security agencies in the district to discuss the
issue with opinion leaders at Kasoa.
The statement said the team had met on several occasions
with some opinion leaders in Kasoa including former MP for
Awutu/Senya Papa Lamin Abu Sadat, Mr Mohammed Musa, former
government appointee at the Awutu Effutu District Assembly
and Alhaji Suraj with the view to finding a lasting solution
to the problem.
It further stated that during the meeting the opinion
leaders promise to stop the traders from using the Zongo
area as a market centre at the end of December last year,
but unfortunately three months after the agreed grace
period, the traders had not moved.
GNA
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