{"id":196192,"date":"2016-03-05T13:20:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T13:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=196192"},"modified":"2016-03-05T13:20:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T13:20:15","slug":"kumasi-central-market-project-progressing-steadily-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/03\/kumasi-central-market-project-progressing-steadily-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumasi Central market project progressing steadily \u2013 Mayor \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Metropolitan Chief Executive for the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, Kojo Bonsu\u00a0has revealed that the phase one of the Kumasi Kejetia-Central market reconstruction project is about 60% complete.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Bonsu said this when he inspected the project with market queens from the Kumasi Central market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-196197 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kejetia-central-market-project-5.jpg\" alt=\"kejetia central market project (5)\" width=\"671\" height=\"503\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We are very close; it looks like 60% of the work is done now,&#8221; headded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-196193 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kejetia-central-market-project-1.jpg\" alt=\"kejetia central market project (1)\" width=\"671\" height=\"503\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the mayor, bringing the market women to the site is to enable them be abreast with the state of the project.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The traders are our partners, and if they are our partners, we have to let them know and see what we&#8217;re doing,\u00a0 because we know people are bickering, people are saying they don&#8217;t know all that is going on here. So our intention is to let our partners who are the market women and traders to come here and see all that is going on,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-196194 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kejetia-central-market-project-2.jpg\" alt=\"kejetia central market project (2)\" width=\"671\" height=\"503\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the market queens could not hide their joy when they visited the site and they were surprised at the work done by the contractor, Contracta Engenhiara Limited.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-196196 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kejetia-central-market-project-4.jpg\" alt=\"kejetia central market project (4)\" width=\"671\" height=\"503\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-196199 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kejetia-central-market-project-7.jpg\" alt=\"kejetia central market project (7)\" width=\"671\" height=\"503\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The reconstruction of the Kumasi Kejetia-Central Market has in the past few months experienced some setbacks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some disgruntled traders at the central market had resisted moves to relocate them to pave way for the commencement of the ultra-modern market centre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They had also dragged the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly to court over the issue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, all issues between the drivers, traders at the Market and authorities of KMA have been resolved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-196200 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kejetia-central-market-project-8.jpg\" alt=\"kejetia central market project (8)\" width=\"671\" height=\"503\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Phase One of the Kejetia-Central market project comprises construction work in the area which is expected to be done within 24 months\u00a0at the cost of $198 million, while the remaining $100 million will be expended on the second and third phases, which would focus on the redevelopment of the Kumasi Central Market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A biometric exercise is currently ongoing to register traders of the Kumasi central market to enable them have secured shops when phase One of the project is completed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Lauretta Timah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Metropolitan Chief Executive for the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, Kojo Bonsu\u00a0has revealed that the phase one of the Kumasi Kejetia-Central market reconstruction project is about 60% complete. 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