Do or Die: KMA task force clash with Kumasi race-course traders
Tension between traders at the Kumasi Race-Course market continues to heighten ever since a number of traders were transferred from Kumasi Central market to Race-Course by authorities of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly.
A group of traders at the Race-Course are agitating over what they describe as unfair treatment by the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly. On Tuesday, 13th September 2021, there were dramatic scenes resulting in near fist exchanges between the sellers of Tomatoes and the sellers of second-hand clothes at the Race-Course market at Bantama.
The traders of Tomatoes bemoan that they are the first group of traders who settled at the satellite market at a time when the place was very untidy and unattractive. According to the sellers of Tomatoes, they will not sit aloof for authorities of the KMA to give their space where they sell their Tomatoes to the second-hand clothes sellers.
The sellers of second-handers clothes have been asked to move from the Kumasi Central market which is currently undergoing redevelopment. Since the cloth sellers arrived at the Race-Course market, there have been confusion and misunderstanding between the traders.
A woman had to break her leg during a chase to secure a space at the Race-Course market after the arrival of cloth sellers on Tuesday, a reporter told Ali Baba on Kessben FM’s Breaking News.
The Tomatoes sellers remain resolute and say they will not agree for the cloth sellers to take their space. According to them, the cloth sellers were also given a place at the Abinchi market so they should just do the needful and go there.
Source: kessbenonline.com/ Story by Nazir Hamzah
