In order to increase the area’s economic feasibility for expansion, a new central market has been opened at Ave-Dakpa in the Akatsi North District of the Volta Region. Business owners are urged to patronize the market.
The project, which began in 2018 and was properly laid out, received funding from the Coastal Development Authority (CoDA), District Assemblies Common Fund, and others. It has 15 market lockable stalls, 58 sheds, a car park, restrooms, a slaughterhouse, and other facilities like a day care center and a 20-seater water closet toilet, some of which are in the advanced stages of construction.
During a brief ceremony on Thursday to commission the facility, the District Chief Executive, Mr. Peter Simon Ofosu, promised that the government would continue to create the favorable commercial environment required to advance its development goal in the region.
He expressed his gratitude to the government and other organizations for realizing their dreams.
He remarked that the opening of the new market will support the local economy in the region and urged businesspeople in Togo and the Southern Belt to shop there.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency, Mr. Peter Ofosu urged the vendors to make the market lively in order to draw customers and bolster the Assembly’s effort to raise money.
He believed that the internally generated fund (IGF) of the Assembly should be expanded because it was not encouraging.
In order to commission the project, Dr. Archibald Yao Letsa, the Volta Regional Minister, was represented by Mr. Godwin Kwame Dadzawa, the South Dayi DCE. He reaffirmed the government’s commitment to bringing local governance and growth to the local levels of every District.
“When we came into office, the President’s top priority has been to promote local development to every District across the nation. You can see two significant projects, including the rapidly progressing Agenda 111 hospital project and the district’s roofing level.
He stated that the government would keep working to enhance peoples’ living situations and added that customers from all walks of life will frequent the market to help it become recognized on a global scale.
“The market’s expansion will be a shared responsibility,” he continued.
He gave the district’s chiefs and elders the assurance that they should maintain their resolve even while the government continued to grow the market and other sectors of the economy.
He also expressed his gratitude to the people who gave up their land for the project.
He warned the market ladies against working with the tax collectors to defraud the Assembly.
Market Women Association Secretary Olivia Zidah congratulated the government for the initiative and urged for its full completion.
She claimed that the new market had made the locals happy, particularly the market women who come to various locations to sell their wares.
The market would be open to the entire District, not only Ave-Dakpa, according to Togbui Nyamekor Glakpe V, Paramount Chief of the Ave Traditional Region and event chairman.
He pleaded for harmony among the local people and chiefs.