PHOTOS: A walk through the new Kejetia market
In 2015, the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), backed by the central government, took the bold decision to reconstruct the Kejetia Lorry Terminal into a modern market edifice to accommodate more shops for traders, as well as serve as a lorry terminal.
The decision was bold because it necessitated finding a new place to relocate the lorry terminal and the many traders in the central business district of Kumasi (CBD) during the construction period.
It is right in the heart of Kumasi as one of West Africa’s largest open air markets. It is bordered to the north by the Kumasi Cultural Centre and to the north by the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. The southern part of the Kejetia market forms a border with Adum, the commercial centre of the city.
Virtually everything that one wants to purchase from a market can be found at Kumasi Central Market.Theghanareport.com on Tuesday took a tour of the trade hub considered to be West Africa’s largest market.
Theghanareport.com took a tour of the newly constructed market.
This is development, human centered.
Sometimes we do not want to talk but it stories such these that provoke us to tel the true story about this market. Please let not the impression be creed that a certain government loved kumasi and as result decided to invest in the construction of the central market. This was a project private citizens from Kumasi together with Manhyia brought in Kumasi.
NB; The role of the central government was to give a guarantee. Even though important but we know a project of this nature certainly will not fail to pay for itself. This was a condition of the financiers. May be John Mahama can take create for it. And that is all. This is a BOT.
The rest of the credit must be given to the private persons whose initiative saw the realization of this project which had been on the drawing board in Kuffour’s time I believe. Your news item and its use on social media seeks to give the impression of some government having done well for the people of Kumerica. The emphasis must be rightly laid. To ascertain what am saying herein do a deeper research and discover the role of the government. Visionless John Mahama cannot take extreme credit for it. The story of the near refusal of his finance minister to present the agreement for parliamentary approval are known to us. It a call for this to happen.