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Kumasi: Asafo market fire victims cry for help

Victims of Asafo market who lost their property in a ferocious fire during Easter festivities are struggling to raise money to transact business. They are therefore, calling on the authorities for urgent financial support to restructure their shops to alleviate them from the trauma they are passing through.

The fire incident which happened just a day after a similar one at the Kumasi central market, swept through a number of shops.

Shops including hair dressing salons, jewelry shops, printing shops, shoe makers’, fashion designing as well as cash, food items among others were heavily affected.

The inferno which occurred on two(2) successive days on Saturday and Sunday April  20  and 21, 2019 respectively, swept through over four hundred shops destroying several properties running into millions of Ghana Cedis, affecting about one thousand traders.

Making their passionate appeal to President Akuffo Addo, some of the traumatized traders described their plight as very alarming and disturbing with daring consequences on the families.

“We have lost a lot, so we need the government to help us and restructure this place for us so that we can have a better place to trade.”

One trader also said “We need loans from the government so that we will be able to re-build our stores and containers”.

“I have lost all my properties. I don’t know what to do. I am pleading on authorities to come to our aid”, a sorrowful trader told Daily Mail GH correspondent.

Another said, “This is not the first time we have witnessed this incident here. I have lost all my investment. I want to even end this business”.

“We are now rendered helpless without any foreseeable future with the source of our livelihood destroyed through this inferno as many of us secured bank loans to trade. We need urgent financial support from the government to restructure our stores to start life again”, they lamented.

One of the traders explained though NADMO officials have had their names listed for a possible assistance, they took up into God for their survival.

“We also trying to put up temporary wooden structures which are very expensive. Now, we do not know what to do since we have to make ends meet at home on a daily basis. Also, we would have loved to construct the market but the land does not belong to us and Government has not come out clear on how it will handle us should it build the market. We are simply in a blackout,” he said.

Source: Ghana/otecfmghana.com/Dorcas Afriyie Danso

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