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General News on Friday, April 26, 2019
Source: Graphic.com.gh
2019-04-26
VVIP bus station operates under the bridge
The Director General of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), Mr. Eric Nana Agyemang-Prempeh, asked the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) to move a bus station to Asafo to Kumasi, operated by the VVIP transport company because it is dangerously installed.
According to him, part of the station, which is under one of the bridges of the Asafo interchange, represented a danger to life and property.
Mr. Agyemang-Prempeh gave the directive during his visit to the Asafo Market on Monday, along with Kumasi Head of Metropolitan Government (MCE), Mr. Osei Assibey Antwi, and the Deputy Minister of Public Works and Industry. of Housing and Deputy of Subin, Mr. Eugene Antwi, destruction caused by two fires on the market.
The bus station is also located near the Asafo market.
Nana Agyemang-Prempeh told the Daily Graphic Daily in Accra: "I asked the KMA to act immediately to prevent any undesirable development. We should not wait for something serious to happen before acting. "
Asafo Market
The head of NADMO also asked the KMA to rebuild the Asafo market because it was in a very bad condition.
About 50% of the market was destroyed in the fire.
"I asked the KMA to create an entirely new market to replace the existing dilapidated structures in Asafo," he told the Daily Graphic.
Funding
The director general of NADMO admitted that the badembly should spend huge sums of money to rebuild the market.
However, he said, the construction, operation and transfer (BOT) system made it possible to carry out the project.
"Today, we have bot, so if the government or the badembly can not bear the costs, we turn to that. In order to save lives and property, we can not continue to live this kind of situation, as was the case in the Asafo market and the Kumasi Central Market, "he said.
Visit
Mr. Agyemang-Prempeh recounted what he had observed at Asafo Market during his visit: "I have found a lot of problems. If we are not careful, we can experience the double disaster of Accra in the Asafo enclave. "
The double disaster, he said, occurred because the drains in the area were small and poorly constructed, causing floods whenever it was raining.
Nana Agyemang-Prempeh said that he had appealed to the Ministry of Public Works and Housing for it to widen the drains of the Asafo market as part of the drainage network reconstruction works that he was undertaking in the country.
He also said that the illegal structures installed on the three terminals of the Asafo market were a source of visual pollution and that it was also impossible for firefighters to have access to water to extinguish the fire.
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