The Bolgatanga Butcher Association have still refused to use the machines that have been installed at the Ghc1.2million ultra-modern abattoir at Yorogo. This is according to the MCE for Bolgatanga, Rex Asanga.
Speaking on A1 Radio’s Day Break Upper Show, Mr Asanga intimated that some persons within the ranks of the butchers are deliberating frustrating the Assembly’s attempts at fully operationalizing the facility.
“The butchers have refused to use the machines. After all the efforts we made when we moved there, we realised that some parts of the machine had been taken out. The engineer had to go to Accra and Kumasi to get parts to fit them in and get the machines working”.
“Several times, the engineer has had to go to Kumasi to get the parts and fix it and then another part goes missing. When the machines were ready to work, the butchers said they were not going to use the machines. They said if the Assembly wants, we can go and buy our own animals and come and use the machines but they will not use the machines. They prefer slaughtering the animals on the ground to make it look messy and all that so that people will ask what we are doing,” the exasperated MCE said.
The MCE continued to say “there is a certain determination [not to make the abattoir function]. It is not all the butchers. A certain section of them is doing all those things.”
Source: A1radioonline.com|101.1MHz|Mark Kwasi Ahumah Smith|Ghana
