Kwadaso onion traders refuse occupying new market, fear similar eviction - Adomonline.com

Onion traders at the Kwadaso Market are refusing to start trading activities at a new market after they were forcefully ejected on Monday by the Ashanti Regional Security Council. The affected traders are to relocate their businesses to Atwima Techiman, but none of them had reported to the new place when the news team visited on Tuesday.

Less 24 hours after they were asked to evacuate the old Kwadaso market, onion traders are now occupying the shoulders of the road near the old market to ply their wares.

“We don’t want to be relocated to where we will still be asked to leave after some years.“We were told this place (Kwadaso) was a market land and we won’t be evicted and now they’re telling us to leave

The onion traders were relocated to racecourse market from Alabar before being moved again to Kwadaso in 2011

The Kwadaso Onion Market has now been cordoned to prevent people from accessing the area.

Secretary to the onion trader’s association, Umar Abdulai says leadership of the traders is working to secure a permanent location to avoid future evictions. “We are looking at securing a place of our own

We don’t want to go to anyplace we don’t have control over the land”, Secretary to the onion traders, Umar Abdulai said.