KAAKIE MUST GO! …We Are Sick and Tired of Her — Market Women

Report by Nana POKU

A group of market leaders, queen mothers, and executives have held a Press Conference to drum home their grievances to the government.

Wearing red armbands and chanting war songs, they have a simple but biting message for the Ga East Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) Hon Kaakie Mann; ‘KAAKIE MUST GO’!

In short, they are calling for the immediate removal of the MCE by the President. They asked the president to replace her in TWO WEEKS or THEY will not cast their votes for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) again.

“We want to say that in the era of Hon Janet Tulasi, Kwabenya, Taifa, and its environs saw massive improvement especially development at the Dome market. This was during the Covid time. As a result of UNITY and MUTUAL RESPECT at the time even in the midst of covid. This is not the case today. Since Hon. Kaakie took over nothing is being done to improve our lot. She is uncooperative and unyielding,” the woman said.

The women, who were clad in red attire, and cloth and brandishing various placards with aspersions changed war songs. They alleged in their Press Statement that instead of the MCE forging cooperation and development, she has created a big wedge and confusion in the market bringing in its wake under development and factionalism. The MCE was accused of causing confusion, disunity, fear, and panic, division among others,” they said.

And they see these tendencies as unproductive and anti-progress. They also alluded to the fact that she is not up to the task and so the president must as a matter of urgency relieve her of her position or his party risks losing massive votes in the constituency which is second to Bantama in terms of NPP votes in Ghana, in 2024.

They complained that their business conditions have slumped very low as a result of her machinations and incompetence. The women accused her of not seeking the market’s and their welfare but intimidating and threatening them and a whole lot of allegations of misconduct and improprieties.

“As we speak she wants to eject us for a school project but we were here long before the school. Does she want us to go hungry, and how do we take care of our children and husbands? Ironically she has not found us any alternative location but she says we should vacate our place,” they said.

The market women also complained about the bad condition of the Dome market. They said that of the defects urgently need to be fixed. They complained of poor drainage, insecurity, darkness, and untransparent allocation of new stalls, and spaces among others. They, therefore, appealed to the President to fulfill his pre-campaign promise of modernizing the markets as it serves so many communities, the biggest in the enclave and also generates the biggest revenue for the assembly in Ga East.