Anloga Carpenters in a dilemma

Kumasi (Ashanti), 3 March '99 -

Kumasi (Ashanti), 3 March '99 - The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development and the Ashanti Regional Co-ordinating Council (ARCC) have been called upon to come out with their final decision on the re- settlement of small-scale carpenters at Anloga, in Kumasi. Reverend Samuel K. Fugah, president of the Association of Small-Scale Industries (ASSI), who made the call said the carpenters were initially to be resettled at Asokore-Mampong and the area, which was near to the Inland Port and the Wood Industries and Training Centre was gazetted in 1993. He explained that the land was well demarcated with access roads, basic infrastructure for dealers in sawn timber, deposits for sawn-dust and a parking lot but now they are being asked to leave the present site for the wood village at Nkinkasie near Sokoban. Rev Fugah made the call when he received relief items worth about two million cedis from the Ashanti Regional Directorate of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) in Kumasi yesterday for victims affected by recent fire outbreak at Anloga carpentry shops. The items were five packets of roofing sheets and 20 pieces of blankets and mattresses. Rev Fugah called on the two institutions to probe allocation of plots at the Wood Village at Nkinkasie and thanked the NADMO for the items and hoped other organisations will assist the affected carpenters to be resettled.