Gomoa Ankamu market women asked to move

The District Chief Executive for Gomoa West, Mr Theophilus Aidoo-Mensah, has appealed to market women at Ankamu to move into the new market by March 07.

He said the market was built by the Urban Poverty Reduction Project in conjunction with the Gomoa West District Assembly over 10 years ago but has remained unoccupied.

At a meeting with the market women at Gomoa Ankamu, Mr Aidoo-Mensah told a meeting of market women that the facility was built at the request of the people of the town at a high cost but had become a white elephant.

He said the site was chosen by the people themselves and therefore there was no need for them to turn round to complain about the distance to the facility.

Mr Aidoo-Mensah said the other things the market women complained of had been provided namely toilet facilities, electricity and a nursery for the children of the market women.

He said the Assembly could no longer continue to spend money on weeding the empty market that has 70 stalls, 20 lockable stores, two toilet facilities, a warehouse and a crèche/nursery school block.

He said the market women also fixed Mondays and Thursdays as Ankamu Market days when traders from far and near could come and do business and appealed to farmers and fishermen to take note of the market days to enable them to patronize it.

Mr Aidoo-Mensah later inspected the Information Communication Technology (ICT) centre built by the Social Investment Fund (SIF), implementers of the Urban Poverty Reduction Project, at the Old FM Station near the Apam Senior High School and expressed satisfaction at the work so far done and also inspected Apam Community Library.

It is a project by the former MP for Gomoa West, Mr Joe Kingsley Hackman, the Gomoa West District Assembly and Apam citizens in the United Kingdom.

Source: GNA