The AMA and the Ministry of Transport seem to have a clash of ideas, deciding among themselves what the Katamanto area will be turned into following the wildfire that consumed the marketplace, destroying several items worth millions of Ghana cedis.
Mayor of Accra, Alfred Oko Vanderpuiye expressed his outfit’s intent to rebuild the area into an ultramodern market but the Transport Ministry also is laying claims to the land, revealing its willingness to construct a railway terminal on the same land.
Speaking in an interview with Peacefmonline.com, Hopeson Adorye explained as inconsistent the position of government on national issues.
He said the recent developments have shown that “the government is inconsistent with whatever he is telling the people of Ghana.”
He wondered how long it would take government to either rebuild the area into a modern market or construct a railway in the locality when the traders have been rendered destitute as a result of the fire outbreak and therefore need a place to commence business.
To him, it would be a wrong decision to make, on the part of government, should it go by the intention of the AMA to build an ultramodern market for the traders at Kantamanto.
Doubting when the project would begin, he expressed strongly that government should rather pave access roads through the market area for fire tenders to avert any similar occurrences of such misfortune in the future.
To him, the initiative by the Assembly will increase the unemployment rate in the country and so, called on the authorities to provide an alternative for the traders to begin work in order to better their livelihoods.
“When are we going to revamp the railway? So, the whole thing looks as if they are in the National Theatre staging concert party because frankly speaking more than 10000 get their daily bread from that point and now, you are saying that they should leave the place without giving them any alternative place to go and trade there. So, what do you expect? You are now going to increase the unemployment in the system.
“The type of trade that goes on there (Katamanto), I don’t agree with the people that we should go and put up a super structure and all that for them to trade there. They need an open market. So, all we need to do now is we make sure there is access road that if there’s any fire outbreak, the fire tenders can drive through and then put off the light.”
He was therefore of the view that “they rehabilitate the place, pave access roads to the place and then allow the traders to put up their own structures so that they continue with the daily activities.”
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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