The Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly (BMA) has begun processes to recruit new butchers to operate the Yorogo Abattoir. This is after Bolgatanga Butchers Association reneged on an agreement to relocate from its current location. The Assembly has thus floated advertisements for interested butchers to apply and be considered in the move to operationalize the Yorogo abattoir.
In the letter dated January 21, 2022, the BMA asked that all applicants should reach the Registry by January 28, 2022.
“It is hereby announced for the information of the General Public that, the Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly is recruiting butchers to operate at the abattoir in Yorogo. Interested persons are therefore invited to submit applications for consideration as butchers. All applications must be addressed to the Municipal Chief Executive and submitted at the registry of the Assembly on or before Friday 28th January 2022,” the statement read.
Speaking to Samuel Mbura on A1 Radio’s Day Break Upper East Region, The MCE for Bolgatanga, Rex Asanga implied that the Assembly has been left with no choice.
“Until now, we have not come to any agreement. The butchers are still on strike and we have not opened that [the old] slaughterhouse. We do not intend to open it anyway. There are many people who have concerns, especially the caters associations, who have been to us to see the way forward. We think that the way forward is to operationalise the Yorogo Abattoir. As it is now, the butchers have refused to deal with the caterers individually.”.
“So many people have been calling us claiming to be butchers operating in other parts of the country and there are also local ones who are willing to relocate to Yorogo to do business. We do not want to shut down the place and also bring untold suffering to the public,” he explained.
He said a critical part of recruiting the new butchers would be conducting medical screenings to ensure that all the new butchers are medically sound.
It would be recalled that the MCE warned that should the butchers fail to occupy the new facility, as was agreed in an MoU signed by executives of the Bolgatanga Butchers Association and officials of the Assembly, the facility at Yorogo will be handed over to other interested parties to operate.
This was when he spoke to Samuel Mbura on the same platform on January 19, 2021.
“I am happy that some butchers who are from the Upper East Region and are operating in Accra and Kumasi have started calling in wanting to relocate to Yorogo if the current crops of butcher do not want to use it. They are prepared to come and operate it. I am also very sure there are people who know the business who are around [within the region]. The Assembly, would after one week if the current crop of butchers fail to move to the facility, begin the process of recruiting butchers for the new abattoir,” he explained.
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