The Head of the Butchers Association in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region, Tindanzor Kolduug has revealed they rescinded their earlier decision not to relocate to the abattoir at Yorogo to save their jobs.
It would be recalled that after the butcher reneged on their decision to move, the Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly began processes to employ new butchers to operate the ghc1.2 million facility at Yorogo.
According to Chief Kolduug their only source of income is the butchering business and therefore having heard that the Municipal Assembly was recruiting new butchers to occupy the Abattoir in Yorogo, they had to take bold decision to move immediately and occupy the Abattoir before it was late.
In an exclusive interview with A1 News, Mr. Kolduug further explained that, it is from the butchering business that they are able to fend for their family and also ensure that their children are school. It also helps to pay for bills and therefore the news of the Assembly recruiting new Butchers was worrying to him “looking how far we have come as Butchers in the Municipality”.
“We heard it that way and when I looked how the issue was going, it looked like the Assembly some senior citizens to come and bear witness with that we the Butchers were refusing to move and that was why they were recruiting new Butchers and that’s why I did not agree, we will not abandon this work. It is our work,” he revealed.
He insisted that “it was getting very serious and they said the announcement was going to be done twice and it was left with the second one and if that one had been made it would have been over for us then I said No! I cannot start this work from childhood and just look at us lose our jobs this manner so we had to move”.
He revealed that since he took that bold decision to relocate to the ultramodern Abattoir, he has been vilified by the butchers over that decision but he is not moved because he prefers to be accused because “I took the right decision to protect our jobs than to follow the masses and lose our jobs”.
Meanwhile, the Youth Wing of the Butchers Association in the Bolgatanga Municipality has accused the Chief Butcher, Tindanzor Kolduug of putting his own parochial interests ahead of the collective interests of the group.
According to them, the Chief Butcher was easily persuaded when he was told by the Assembly that, he was going to have an office in the new abattoir at Yorogo. They claim that this explained why he, [the chief butcher] foisted the decision of relocating to Yorogo on them. The young butchers also alleged that the Chief Butcher had been promised a monthly salary and a stake in the abattoir.
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