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The biggest and busiest market in the in the Shama district of the Western Region, the Beposo Market, is engulfed in filth.<\/p>\n
According to residents in the area, Zoomlion Company Limited; the company contracted\u00a0to clean the market, only cleans the market, which is \u00a0located at the center of the town, a day before market days.<\/p>\n
Positioned on the border of the Western and Central regions, the market hosts traders from both regions, who go there to sell their wares on Tuesdays and Fridays.<\/p>\n
With many farmlands situated along the Pra River, which is a few meters away from the town, the market is famed in the two regions for its freshly produced food crops such as vegetables.<\/p>\n
The market is full of with rotten oranges, heaps of empty boxes, wrappers and papers, refuse containers overflowing with rubbish.<\/p>\n
In the midst of this, however, seamstresses and hairdressers continue to ply their trade, raising fears of possible outbreak of diseases.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Citi News<\/b>, nearby residents\u00a0asked local authorities to call\u00a0 Zoomlion Ghana Limited to order. They say the habit of the waste company to only clean the market and its surroundings, a day before market days, is a threat to their health.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey (Zoomlion Company Limited) have not declared their intention not to clean the market again. It\u2019s a usual thing. No matter the amount of \u00a0refuse and the smell that emanates from it, it is only until the day before a market day that they clean. Sometimes they do not clean at all. It will be disastrous should any outbreak of diseases\u201d, A hairdresser lamented.<\/p>\n
At full capacity, the market could host more than thousand traders at a time and there are worries that a disease outbreak could prove quite fatal for the city and the traders.<\/p>\n
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