Butchers in the Bolgatanga Municipality have said they are unaware of the MCE Rex Asanga’s directive that they [the butchers] are to vacate their current location by December 15, later this year.
They described as untrue claims that they had had consultative meetings with the Assembly and had arrived at an agreeable conclusion. They said the last meeting the butchers had with the Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly was in 2019 under the former MCE’s watch.
Speaking Mark Kwasi Ahumah Smith on Reports’ Visit, the Secretary of the Bolgatanga Butchers’ Association, Timothy Tembil said conditions that will facilitate their moving to the new abattoir at Yorogo had not been met so they would not be able to move as expected of them.
“The place where it has been sited was not our choice. We [also] gave them certain conditions which they have not complied with. We made them know that now that the abattoir has been sited in Yorogo, then there was the need for them to bring the livestock market [for small ruminants and cattle] closer,” he explained.
Mr. Tembil said while he had seen the new MCE, the former only saw the latter in an unofficial capacity and had no discussions about the abattoir thus it is a surprise to him that the Assembly has issued such a directive.
Meanwhile, the Presiding Member for the Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly, Rawfield Nyaaba insisted that the conditions of the butchers had been met. He was particularly worried that a structure that cost over a million ghc to put up is not in use.
He spoke with Samuel Mbura on A1 Radio’s Day Break Upper East Show, “Their demands given were met, but the thinking is that some of them may go out of work like those who singe animals. This new abattoir is an ultra-modern one all other activities will be done in a machine. The location of the abattoir is the best place ever. Abattoirs are not situated in other regions in the heart of the town and always in the outskirts of the town,” he explained.
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