Maamobi Kaasuankuda market in Accra: Assembly to relocate traders to Shai Osudoku to pave way for 24-hour market
The Ayawaso North Municipal Assembly has found an alternative 10-acre land at Shai Osudoku in Greater Accra to relocate all traders currently occupying the congested Kaasuankuda market at Maamobi in Accra.
This is to help pave the way for a new and properly designed market to be constructed at the Kaasuankuda market area under the government's 24-hour project, according to the Municipal Chief Executive, Haruna Mohammed Awal.
All the traders have therefore been given a six-week ultimatum to move to the Shai Osudoku site so that the new construction works can start.
The government has already allocated and released funds for the new market project, but because the traders are still in the market, alongside squatters, many of whom have constructed makeshift structures in the market area and use them as residential accommodation, the construction project has still not started.
Speaking to Graphic Online, the MCE said the assembly was completing the arrangements to relocate the traders to the newly acquired 10-acre parcel of land at Shai Osudoku.
The relocation exercise follows a longstanding dispute between the assembly and occupants of the land, which Mr Awal said had delayed access to the site and slowed implementation of the project.
The MCE told Graphic Online on Friday [June 18, 2026], that he was working to provide water and electric power to the new site.
The Minister of Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Mr Ahmed Ibrahim, had questioned the delay in the utilisation of the funds allocated for the project during a monitoring tour of four municipal assemblies in Accra on June 10, 2026.
The MCE, Mohammed Awal explained that the assembly had received GH¢42 million out of the GH¢58 million allocated under the government’s 24-hour economy initiative.
According to him, about 10 per cent of the amount has been spent on preliminary works, including the drilling of boreholes, while the remainder has been held pending access to the project site.
“We are on course. That is why the money is still sitting in the account. It is not like we do not have any plan at all for it. We have the plan for it,” he said.
Mr Awal said the occupants had petitioned the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), the Legal Aid Commission, and the Ministry of Local Government over the planned acquisition of the land.
He said the assembly subsequently adopted a resettlement approach following advice from CHRAJ.
“We are now going to create potable water access for them and then electricity to the site. Then we can eject them from Kaasuankuda and then pave the way for the 24-hour economy market,” he said.
Asked whether the assembly required support from the ministry or any other state institution to proceed with the project, Mr Awal said gaining access to the site remained the only outstanding challenge.
“All we need to do is create access to move the people and then have access to the site. That is it,” he said.
