Kejetia Market Faces Shutdown Over ECG Bills

The newly constructed Kejetia Market, situated in the heart of Kumasi, will before long become a useless if authorities in the city fail to intervene.

Most of the shop owners, who paid huge amount of monies years ago to get shops in the structure, are presently closing their shops because of colossal power tariffs.

According to reports, the whole market, which has over 7,000 lockable shops and tables, depend on only one mass meter from the power makers.

At the finish of each and every month, the market managers, allegedly, partition the tariff for the shops, without consulting anybody. This has, apparently, prompted colossal power obligations in the market.

Virtually, all the shop owners in the market have kicked against this arrangement of power bailing, which to them amounts to cheating.

According to reports, appeals by the shop owners for the managers of the facility to give them separate meters have fallen on deaf ears.

A portion of the shops owners complained harshly that the exorbitant power tariffs, being charged from them, was eating into their capital and killing their businesses.

In a related turn of events, it has arisen that the new Kejetia Market owe the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) a staggering GH¢5 million over unpaid bills.

According to reports, the power makers have made plainly they would consider allocating separate meters to the shops solely after the obligation had been adjusted.

Meanwhile, the President of the Federation of Kumasi Traders, Nana Akwasi Prempeh, has claimed that a few traders have already shut their shops.

According to him, the management of the Kejetia Market should have been blamed for dragging their feet in providing separate meters for the shops, to avert cheating.

Also, Sam Pyne, the Kumasi Mayor, is said to be unhappy about the brouhaha at Kejetia, and has personally intervened to get separate meters for the shops.

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According to media reports, the KMA Chieftain has called for a meeting among all stakeholders at Kejetia one week from now for a roadmap, regarding installing separate meters.