The Assembly Member for the Kwadaso Electoral Area has assured that the municipal assembly will implement measures to assist traders who lost their shops and goods in a fire that ravaged the market.
In the early hours of Thursday, August 1, a devastating fire swept through the Kwadaso market in the Ashanti region, destroying over 40 shops and their contents.
In an interview with Citi News, the assembly member, Ernest Frimpong, acknowledged that obstructions along the entrance to the market and the access road to the fire scene caused delays in the fire service’s response.
He noted that he had previously visited the market to address these issues and expressed regret that the market women did not adhere to the warnings.
The assemblymember pledged that the Kwadaso Municipal Assembly would engage the affected traders to grant them support.
“Last week, I came here with my unit committee chairman to talk to some of the women who have done the blockade on the way. But unfortunately for us, we thought they had removed it.
“But not knowing that some of them are still blocking the main road. So I think that it is a situation where we need to deal with it once and for all so that this place can be accessible to everybody.
“The Municipal Chief Executive was here when the situation started. So we will go and sit down with the Chief Executive and the Assembly to come and look at what we can do for our mothers.
“This is a very bad situation for us and as an assembly member and as a presiding member for the Municipal Assembly, we need to sit down with our mothers so that we can all see the good things that we can do for them. So we are going to sit down with them and find a solution to this problem that has happened.”
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