Source: Mona Lisa Frimpong (myjoy)
Managing Director of the Kejetia Market, Edmund Kofi Duffour Addae, and some workers were driven away from their offices by traders on Tuesday morning.
Leaders of the traders’ unions threatened not to reopen the market until they receive an assurance from market authorities that their shops will in turn, be reopened.
This is after management of the New Kejetia Market locked up shops of traders who owed electricity bills, on Tuesday dawn.
The affected traders then besieged the administration premises and locked out staff of the City Market Company.
Many of the traders complained of high electricity charges, hence their inability to pay.
Chairman of the Kejetia Traders Association, Eric Nana Prempeh, claimed that the market authorities have no power to lock their shops.
“The management has no authority to close any shop. The Electricity Company of Ghana has not disconnected our light. Why is the market management locking our shops? We do not owe them! We owe the ECG”.
