The market after the roofing challenge was fixed
Following a recent publication by DAILY GUIDE that traders at the Sekondi main market are complaining about the dilapidated state of the facility, particularly the roofing, Member of Parliament (MP) for the area, Andrew Egyapa Mercer, has fixed the problem.
The over 100 years Sekondi market has seen very little renovation since it was constructed in the late 1920s.
In a recent interview with DAILY GUIDE, the market women and other traders appealed to the authorities concerned to, as a matter of urgency, renovate the market to befit its status.
The Sekondi MP, who is also the Deputy Minister of Energy, has therefore taken the initiative to renovate the market by first fixing the roofing challenge.
When DAILY GUIDE visited the market yesterday, it was revealed that all the dilapidated roofs had been removed and replaced with modern roofing sheets to protect the traders from the vagaries of the weather.
The market women praised the minister for coming to their aid following appeals from the traders of the market.
“The dilapidated nature of the market, especially the roofing, was adversely affecting our business and was even a threat to our lives,” they pointed out.
Meanwhile, it would be recalled the National Democratic Congress (NDC) 2024 Parliamentary Candidate for Sekondi, Nyameke Blay Armah, claimed that he was prevented by authorities of the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly from fixing the roofing problem when he attempted to do so.
He asserted that the assembly indicated that a budget allocation has been made for a new public market to be constructed and that it would not be prudent for the NDC candidate to fix the roof.
However, the MP for Sekondi, Egyapa Mercer has indicated that it was not the first time he is solving that particular problem in the constituency.
He disclosed that the roofing was fixed with his social investment fund.
“The traders will attest to the fact that the roofing was bad in the past and I used my resources to fix it when the NDC parliamentary candidate was nowhere to be found,” he revealed.
From Emmanuel Opoku, Sekondi