The MCE for the Bolgatanga Municipality Rex Asanga said he was taken aback by a press conference by some butchers who stated that they are unwilling to move to the abattoir located at Yorogo.
Mr. Asanga said the butchers had agreed to move to the new facility at Yorogo by January 1, 2022 and so he was “taken aback yesterday when a team from TV3 came to my house to interview me and they were telling me that they are just from a press conference from the butchers saying that they are not going to move and giving the same reasons that we have discussed over the years. I was so surprised that after all the goodwill and engagement we had had with the butchers, they go and hold a press conference and communicate to us as Assembly that they will not move”.
“I want to advise them that, we should not go that way. We [the Assembly] will insist that the abattoir be put to use and they will have to move,” he said.
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He explained that the current site that houses the butcher will be turned into an ultra-modern meat market after the butchers have relocated to the abattoir at Yorogo. He said this when he spoke on A1 Radio’s Day Break Upper East today, Wednesday, December 29, 2021.
Meanwhile, Secretary to the Bolgatanga Butchers Association in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region, Timothy Yinbil has rubbished claims that they will not move to the newly built abattoir in the Yorogo community.
On December 28th 2021, a youth group within the butchers held a press conference saying that it will not make economic sense if they move to the new abattoir as over 250 of their jobs will be lost.
The group said the smoking of meat, which was their daily source of income would be greatly affected.
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