Apremdo Market still a white elephant

The Apremdo Market, which was constructed during the regime of the former President Jerry John Rawlings, to ease congestion in the Central Business District of the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolis, is still a white elephant, despite all efforts by the Assembly to get traders and market women to move to the market.

Due to the politics played with the market by former and present government officials, particularly those in the metropolis, the huge amount of money invested in the project by government seems to have gone down the drain.

Attempts to relocate the traders by the erstwhile government of the both the Natioanl Democratic Congress (NDC) and New Patriotic Party (NPP) failed.

Meanwhile, the situation at the market circle currently, is unbearable, due to the congestion.

The market women, according to information gathered by the Western File, are willing to relocate, while their activities at the center continue to pose environmental challenges.

The Assembly has been battling with the situation, with incessant cries to the traders to relocate to the new market center, but all to no avail.

Though the market was constructed for a genuine purpose, those who were due to use it failed to do so, therefore allowing the market to stand unused for almost a decade.

The major worry of the women, who were kicking against the decision to move to the market center, was centered on the lack of basic amenities and the required facilities to take care of traders with children.

Water, electricity and other facilities, that hitherto were lacking, had to be provided by the assembly, but the traders would not budge to the demands of the assembly.