Two days ago, we woke up to a very disheartening and heartbreaking news that a combined team of police and the military, facilitated by the Ga East Municipal Assembly in the wee hours of the day, stormed the Dome market and raided the entire market stalls, destroying the entire belongings of the unsuspecting market women and also depriving them of a place to sell their wares and keeping body and soul together.
What is even more inhumane and nauseating is the ill timeliness of the raid; just around the time when Christmas is fast approaching, a period where these sellers are supposed to sell and eke a living to celebrate the yuletide, such barbaric act could be unleashed on them.
In fact these men and women who sell in the market have not only lost the places they sell but have also lost most of their wares which are estimated to be hovering around several million of Ghana cedis.
I find this action by the Assembly very inhuman, abhorring and distasteful and therefore would want to condemn it in no uncertain terms and caution the Assembly to apologize to these women and the necessary remedies made to them in these trialing times.
The action of the Assembly falls contradictory to the father for all mantra composed by His Excellency Professor John Evans Atta Mills who has always touted to be God-fearing.
A God-fearing president should not sit idle as a section of his flock suffers.
The issue of the reconstruction of the Dome Market has come up over and over and despite consistent pleas to the assembly to find an alternative place for the market women to sell, the request has fallen on deaf ears leading to the show of wanton display of power without recourse to prior notice to the market women.
I therefore empathize with these displaced women in these trying times and urge them that the necessary pressure would be brought on the authorities to reinstate these displaced market women.
Lawyer Adwoa Safo
NPP Parliamentary Candidate, Dome/ Kwabenya
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