[ 2014-09-29 ]

Court halts kotokuraba market demolition on October 1
Cape Coast, Sept. 28, GNA - A Cape Coast High
Court has placed an interlocutory injunction on
the demolition of the Kotokuraba Market scheduled
for Wednesday October 1, the Ghana News Agency
(GNA) has gathered.

The demolition was to pave way for the
construction of the much awaited ultra-modern
market, one of the two most important projects,
dear to the hearts of Cape Coasters, initiated by
the late President John Evans Atta Mills in Cape
Coast.

The application for the injunction, according to a
reliable source, was filed by an eight member
group of market women, led by one Madam Sabina
Tweneboa.

In their statement of claim, the group alleged
that the cubicles in the temporary market at
Kotoka and the Ghana Broadcasting Area, which
have been completed and the handing-over of keys
to the traders was still in progress, were too
small, not human friendly, warm and inconvenient
for business.

Madam Priscilla Arhin, the Metropolitan Chief
Executive confirmed the court’s action by the
Market women at Cape Coast in reaction to the
story and said she will not comment on it because
the case was at the court.

The case had been scheduled for Thursday October
23, 2014.

The President, John Dramani Mahama was due to cut
the sod for the construction of the new market,
which was expected to be completed within 18
months, on October 6.

Meanwhile a number of aggrieved traders, who
claimed their names were initially on the computer
at the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly (CCMA) but
could not be found when the handing-over commenced
had appealed to the officials of the Assembly to
consider them in the allocation.

Source - GNA

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