Reconstruction work on Ho Central Market to begin this year – GUMP Coordinator
The reconstruction of the Ho Central Market will begin before the end of 2012, Mr Sylvanus Adzonu, National Coordinator of Ghana Urban Management Pilot Project (GUMP), told the media in Ho on Monday.
The Ho Central Market Women planned to stage a demonstration on Thursday, January 26th to protest the perceived delay in the commencement of the project.
Mr Adzonu said a grant worth GH¢8.5 million from France was ready for the ultra-modern state-of-the-art market.
He said project preparations had been completed and a consultant assigned explaining that it had taken one-and-half years to prepare to ensure quality and expeditious work.
Mr Adzonu said an ultra-modern abattoir and landfill engineering sites were other projects under the GUMP to be completed within five years.
He appealed to the market women to cooperate with the Ho Municipal Assembly and the contractors who would be working on the projects.
Mr Isaac Kodobisah, Ho Municipal Chief Executive, said the Assembly had invested much in the last three years to make traders in the market very comfortable pending the GUMP.
He said the Assembly had provided security lights, expanded traders’ cubicles, employed market managers, and constructed a lavatory for the market.
He said the Assembly had also built a kindergarten yet to be handed over to the market managers.
Mr Kodobisah said the Assembly had invested more in the market than the revenue it generated from it and called for collaboration from the market women.
Madam Theresa Mansa Dagbe, the Market Queen said the market women became apprehensive because of the delay in the commencement of the projects.
She said they had waited too long hence their decision to make their concerns public.
Madam Dagbe intimated that the traders and their patrons “suffer” a lot of inconveniences from the vagaries of the weather and called for prompt action.
The GUMP project seeks to help resolve infrastructure deficits in urban areas. It is currently being piloted in Tamale, Sekondi-Takoradi, Kumasi and Ho.
Source: GNA