Strategically located along the Kumasi-Techiman Highway in Offinso North district of the Ashanti region of Ghana is Nkenkaasu, with the popular Nkenkaasu Wednesday Market as the economic hub.

The town hosts the historic Paramedic and Emergency Care Training School (PECTS), the first of its kind in West Africa, and Nkenkaasu Government Hospital, the first and only government hospital within the Kumasi-Techiman stretch.

Plans for the long-awaited Nkenkaasu 24-Hour Economy Market are far advanced following broad stakeholder engagements, selection and acceptance of the Nkenkaasu Wednesday Market site by the Ministry of Local Government, Chieftancy and Religious Affairs.

Procurement Works/National Competitive Tendering and settling on Wazkad Ghana Limited as the contractor for the project, scheduled to be completed within 36 months, have been completed.

It is instructive to note that the opposition to Nkenkaasu as the preferred site for the 24-Hour Economy Market by some traditional leaders at Akomadan, who organised a press conference to declare their position, is unfortunate and borne out of misinformation.

What are the facts, then? After the 2024 general elections, some traditional leaders and then parliamentary candidate, now the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Offinso North, Caesar Acheampong Ofosu, met over the encroachment on the Akomadan Tuesday Market land by private investors, among others.

The proposal from the meeting was to relocate the market to a sizeable land along the Akomadan-Sraneso stretch, as the traditional leaders showed Mr. Ofosu.

Nowhere in their discussion did he mention the 24-Hour Economy Market for Akomadan. Besides, the new government had not even launched the 24-Hour Economy & Accelerated Development Programme to prepare the grounds for deliberations on 24-Hour Economy Markets across the country.

Instead of the unfortunate resistance to the Nkenkaasu 24-Hour Economy Market by some people from Akomadan whose freedom of expression is highly respected as part of Ghana's enviable democratic dispensation, the push for the long-overdue Akomadan Tomato Factory, which was part of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC)'s 2020 and 2024 manifestos, should rather be on the radar.

Attached to this piece are the August 12, 2025, letter on Submission of Land Documents on Sites earmarked for the proposed 24-Hour Economy Model Market and January 06, 2026, Ghanaian Times publication (page 22) of Procurement Works/National Competitive Tendering details from the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council.

Author: Offinso Watch - OW