Used cloth dealers to protest over delayed Kumasi Central Market project

Used cloth dealers and traders formerly situated in Kumasi Central Market, now relocated to Racecourse due to reconstruction, are planning a five-day continuous protest. 

They expressed frustration over the delay in completing phase two of the Kumasi Central Market redevelopment. 

The redevelopment of the Kumasi Central Market, initiated by the governing New Patriotic Party to enhance trading conditions, was paused in 2022 amid the Debt Restructuring Programme. 

The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah assured that the market project will resume after completing the Kumasi International Airport and Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital’s maternity block.

The leader of the Central Market Traders Association, Samuel Obeng, emphasized their determination to protest, irrespective of the government’s stance. 

“The completion of the Kumasi International Airport will not provide food for us nor can it help us in any way as traders

Instead of helping us cater for ourselves and our families by completing the market, you rather want to complete the airport, that’s fine, but we shall see,” he said