Madina main market gets new facelift - Assembly assures affected market women of shops
The La Nkwantanang-Madina Municipal Assembly in the Greater Accra Region has cut sod for reconstruction of the main Madina market (part of which got burnt recently), with the assurance that the affected market women would be allocated their shops.
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The two storey reconstruction work, which is expected to be completed by the end of November, is being undertaken by AMAA Integrated Limited as the contractor and Fedems Limited, as the consultant. When completed it will have a total of 48 sheds and 108 shops.
Recently, part of the main Madina Market in the La Nkwantanang- Madina Municipality got burnt rendering most of the market women whose shops and sheds got burnt jobless, creating economic and financial challenges to them.
The Vice-President and the flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, visited the scene after the incident and assisted those who lost their properties financially with the assurance that the market would be reconstructed before the year ended.
Sod cutting
At the sod cutting ceremony, the La Nkwantanang-Madina Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Jennifer Dede Adjabeng, who represented the Vice-President, said the Vice-President in collaboration with the La Nkwantanang-Madina Assembly and the Parliamentary Candidate (PC) of Madina Constituency, Robert
Lamptey, teamed up to assist them with the reconstruction of the market for the affected market women to restart selling in order to overcome their current plight.
Mrs Adjabeng said the contractor and the consultant were done with the design and every detail of the plan and documentation of the new market to be built and she called for cooperation from them for the work to be completed on schedule.
She assured the market women that when completed, they would be given their old space, and asked them to disregard rumours that the shops would be reallocated to new set of market women.
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Political rumours
“My dear mothers and sisters gathered here, I am a woman like you and I will feel the same way you are feeling now, especially those of you who have lost your properties in the recent fire outbreak in the market.”
“Let me tell you frankly that there is no amount of truth in the rumours going round concerning the reallocation of the sheds and shops when completed.
Those who occupied the burnt sheds and shops are the same people who are going to benefit. Whatever you are hearing are all political rumours which are baseless, for the assembly does not know political colours and affiliations of the market women,” the MCE reassured them.
According to the MCE, the leadership of the assembly had earlier had an engagement with the leadership of the market women and relocated the market women to the market car park temporarily and stressed the need for them to adhere to that arrangement for the contractor to speed up the work.
Adherence
The Secretary of the Madina Market Women Association, Eunice Quao, thanked the Vice-President, the La Nkwantanang-Madina Municipal Assembly and the Parliamentary Candidate for their intervention and support.
She gave an assurance that the leadership would see to it that they adhered to the earlier discussion and arrangement for the work to be completed on time and in their interest.
The Parliamentary Candidate, Mr Lamptey, for his part, said even though he was not the Member of Parliament yet, he was always assisting the constituency in diverse ways and pleaded with the electorate to give him the nod to represent them for the development of the Madina Constituency.