The Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Samuel Nuertey Ayertey, yesterday handed over the newly built Laasi Market at Korletsom, a suburb of Odumase-Krobo in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality to the market women at a ceremony. The 70-year-old market, which has been renovated several times nearly caused disaster three months ago when the rains started, hence the need for the deputy regional minister to source for funds for the project.
Handing over
At the handover ceremony to the market women at Laasi, Mr Ayertey, who is also the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the Lower Manya Krobo Constituency for the December polls, said he was touched by the plight of the market women during the incident which nearly caused disaster on that fateful day.
‘’ But for God’s intervention, we would have recorded some deaths when the structure collapsed. Even though I am not the Member of Parliament, I can’t sit down unconcerned, hence the need for me to lobby and source for funds for the project.
Governance
‘’Good governance is about lobbying for development projects and programmes and I think I have demonstrated enough evidence to you that I am capable of doing more if I am given the mandate as MP for the next four years,” the deputy minister stressed.
Mr Ayertey explained that the market was older than the rehabilitation works that the previous members of parliament did since every part of the structure was weak, adding ‘’When the structure is weak, no amount of rehabilitation can save the situation’’.
He expressed the hope that the building of the market afresh would boost the morale of the market women as the market was their ‘’office’’ and give him four years to represent them in Parliament to bring more development to the area.
The deputy minister lauded the landowners who willingly released the parcel of land for the project and urged all other landowners in the municipality to do same when the need arose in the interest of development.
Educational infrastructure
The Lower Manya Krobo Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Simon Kweku Tetteh, who accompanied the deputy minister, also enumerated a lot of projects executed by the present government, most of which were educational infrastructure which had been completed for the schools.
The leader of the Laasi market women, Manye Mamle Wahiklo, on behalf of her colleagues, expressed gratitude to the deputy minister for his timely intervention. She added that the Laasi market women had no hope again prior to Mr Nuertey’s intervention and assured him that he was going to be given the nod in the December general elections.
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