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Government has expressed dissatisfaction with the state of work at Adjen Kotoku where traders at the Agbogbloshie market are expected to be relocated to.
The Works and Housing Minister Enoch Teye Mensah says some components of the project must be rebuilt to be able to accommodate the needs of traders who’ll be moved there.
The intended ‘reengineering’ means the relocation of the market will have to wait a while longer.
The decision was taken after Mr E.T. Mensah had inspected the project site early Wednesday.
The redevelopment of the Adjen Kotoku community was expected to be complete by November last year.
It started in 2008 mainly for a wholesale market which is supposed to serve traders in Accra and its environs for bulk breaking activities to ease congestion in most markets in the capital.
It comes with facilities such as a 14-unit classroom block, a clinic, a community centre, storm water drainage system, transport terminals and a sewerage reticulation plant.
Mr Mensah was satisfied with all facilities there except the market which has only 95 stalls and a shed with little space for a transport terminal.
The Housing Minister said the project manager could have done a better job.
“If you have studied the dynamics of our market, you need….where is the lorry park where they’ll offload and the kind of warehouses that we’re talking about; these look like just stores, small stalls…the doors are like somebody’s bedroom door,” he stated.
The project is now 75 percent complete, according to the minster. But there is some expansion work to be done. After this the popular Agbogbloshie market will be relocated.
There are no timelines for the completion of the project. The minster only insists it will be completed ‘very soon’.
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