ACCEPT KEJETIA PROJECT

Residents of Kumasi particularly traders at the Kejetia bus terminal and the Central Market have been asked to endorse the Kejetia and the Central Market reconstruction project in the interest of the region and the nation as a whole. The Member of Parliament for Bantama, Kwabena Kokofu who said in an interview noted that the Kejetia and the Central Market Reconstruction Project has remained on the drawing board for a long time and is now time for the project to take off. He said the only way to decongest the central business area is to have a well designed project that can contain huge number of people at a descent environment to befit the status of the city. Mr. Kokofu who was a member of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly’s delegation to Brazil upon the invitation of the Brazilian contractor who has won the contract to execute the project to tour some of the similar projects it has undertaken there said the project when completed will give Kumasi a face-lift. He said there is the need for further consultations between government and stakeholders on the nature of the project, duration, resettlement and if possible payment of compensation. According to the MP most of the capital intensive projects at the Kejetia bys terminal are illegal because the bus terminal is not supposed to be used for such projects. Mr. Kokofu said the delegation including three MPs and somegovernment officials was satisfied with the prototype of the proposed project. He said the designed is so beautiful as it has taken care of sanitation, water supply, lorry parking and education. The members of the Kejetia bus terminal yesterday took to the streets in protest against what they called unfair treatment being meted out to them by the management of the Kumasi metropolitan assembly who is asking them to relocate to an unknown destination without adequate compensation package to give way for the execution of the project.