ALLOCATING KEJETIA STORES; KMA ASSURES TRADERS

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The Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Executive, Osei Assibey-Antwi has given the firm assurance to affected traders of the Kejetia Terminal that they will be given first priority in the re-allocation of stores, when the first phase of the Kumasi Central Market-Kejetia Re-development Project is completed. 

He said Government, and indeed the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, will not disappoint the traders, adding that the Assembly would carry out the process in a transparent manner. 

Mr. Assibey-Antwi was addressing a meeting in Kumasi between the traders and the committee set up to undertake the validation of all legitimate Kejetia traders. The meeting was to keep them abreast of the guidelines under the roadmap to get them re-settled. Mr. Osei Assibey promised the traders that the Committee will carry out the roadmap without bias, preferences or political considerations.

 Chairman of the Kejetia Oversight Validation Committee, Nana Agyenim Boateng, who is also the  Amoamanhene, said the process of allocating the stores to persons whose data have been captured by the KMA was a decision by the Asantehene.

 This, he noted imposes a great degree of sincerity on all committee members to ensure the process of allocation is done flawlessly. Nana Agyenim Boateng said the re-allocation of the stores to legitimate Kejetia traders will not be for free, as the cost of the stores are currently being determined. 

He said however that some accredited banks will be roped in to provide credit facilities to the traders to facilitate their access to the stores, after which payment will be paid back by instalments.

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