SABIN AKROFROM REJECTS MARKET PROJECT

Sabin Akrofrom, a farming community in the Ashanti region, has outrightly rejected a community market built by the government.

 Information gathered indicates that the market was built before the then Bosomtwe-Atwima-Kwanwoma district was separated into two with Sabin Akrofrom now in the new district. 

Reliable information also received suggests that government deliberately built the market at its location to serve as a trading centre for the twin Sabin Akrofrom-Trede communities not only to enable the residents to sell their farm produce, but to serve also as major transit point for traders who commute from the adjoining districts and municipalities such as Obuasi, Amansie West and Asante Bekwai. 

This was to also to boost trade and commerce along that route to reduce the huge human and vehicular congestion within the main business district of Kumasi.

 This therefore came as a piece of good news to the chiefs and people of Sabin Akrofrom who offered the plot of land for the project. 

The market was built with certain ancillary facilities such as a place of convenience and lockable stores. 

However, the late chief during whose reign the project was implemented stopped its inauguration and use. 

According to insiders, his reason was that the actual market built was different in size and quality than the model project shown to the chiefs earlier hence the suspicion that not all the funds allocated for the project had been expended. 

The location of the market also later came under consideration since the traders have to cross over from the towns to do business there.

 This is considered most dangerous to the lives of not only the prospective sellers and buyers at the market in view of the busy nature of the highway. 

  The current chief of Sabin Akrofrom, Nana Osei Kofi, told Ashanti Today that the Stool has decided to expand the market to a more desirable capacity from their own resources. 

According to Nana Osei Kofi, the new market will have facilities like a fire station, a clinic, a lorry terminal among other essential facilities. 

Meanwhile, Nana Osei Kofi, has asked the owner of a gas refilling plant built closer to the market to relocate and has subsequently provided that businessman a new plot of land to relocate there. 

Additionally, about four acres of the market land sold out for private development has been reclaimed to expand the market to a bigger capacity.