KMA not decongesting Kejetia – Presiding Member

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has no plans of decongesting the Kejetia market in Kumasi, the Ashanti regional capital, Abraham Boadi (Opooman), the Assembly’s Presiding Member, has said.

According to him, suggestions by one Emmanuel Danso, a consultant to the KMA, that there was going to be decongestion exercise at the market was untrue.

This comes amid fears expressed by some traders there that the KMA will soon put them out of business with a rumoured imminent decongestion exercise at the market. According to the traders, no new place has been designated for them to sell their wares, hence their displeasure towards the two-week ultimatum given them by the consultant to leave the Kejetia market.

Speaking in an interview with Chief Jerry Forson, host of Ghana Yensom on Accra100.5FM, Mr Boadi said: “It is the KMA that has appointed Mr Danso as the consultant and so he cannot embark on a decongestion exercise without the approval of the KMA. As we speak the KMA has not authorised any decongestion exercise and so the traders should calm down.

“They petitioned the Assembly and we told them that there was no such plan to decongest the market without earmarking another place for the traders. I would want the traders to go by what the KMA says not what a consultant employed by the assembly tells them.”