LEADERS of Kasoa Market Traders Association (KMTA) are battling officials of Awutu Senya East Municipal Assembly in the Central Region over increment of levies in the market.
The long-standing misunderstanding is far from over as the traders have vowed that they will not pay the new market toll increased from 50p to Gh¢1.00, stressing that the increment will bring untold hardships to them.
In an interview with Today after a marathon meeting held between the leadership of the KMTA and officials of the Assembly in Kasoa on Saturday, February 25, 2017 General Secretary of the Association, Alhaji Haruna, accused the assembly of not using revenues generated from the tolls to develop the market.
“We have stated categorically to the officials of the assembly that the new market toll increased from 50p to Gh¢100, would be paid if only it would be used to address the critical problems that the growing markets in Ghana are going through, instead of using it in the wrong and unaccountable ways,” he insisted..
Alhaji Haruna added: “We told the assembly that what would convince us to regularly pay the new market toll is to fence the market, to prevent thieves from entering into the market in the night, and also to eject traders who are notoriously trading on the lorry park and at the road side” he added.
He bemoaned the deplorable nature of the Kasoa new market which was built somewhere in 2011, which according to him, needs an urgent action by the assembly to safeguard the security of the market.
Mincing no words Alhaji Haruna stressed the need for the assembly to clear the traders who were still operating at the old Kasoa market.
That, according to him, will enable the traders to go and do business at the new market.
“The traders who are still operating at the Kasoa old market need to be relocated to the new market in order to get one big market at Kasoa for all to benefit and to run it seven days of the week and not only on Tuesdays and Wednesdays,” Alhaji Haruna maintained.
He maintained that if the Assembly satisfied their conditions, the Association could pay more than the Gh¢1.00 being required by the assembly.
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