Some traders in the Sunyani Municipality and its environs on Tuesday broke the Covid-19 handle steps and stormed the shutdown Nana Bosoma sector, place for the weekly Wednesday investing things to do in Sunyani.
The Sunyani Municipal Assembly and its COVID-19 Taskforce a month ago closed down the sector to assure social and physical distancing amid other actions from the distribute of the COVID-19.
For that reason, the Assembly and the Sunyani Conventional Council (STC) created satellite markets for everyday investing pursuits to prosper so that there would not be a Wednesday industry, though that is the formal marketplace day to stay clear of overcrowding for the avoidance of COVID-19 spread.
But all through its patrol at about 0600 several hours, the Taskforce saw all varieties of traders, primarily foodstuff sellers who experienced defied the directive for the location to keep on being shut till further see and have been briskly accomplishing business as if nothing was at stake.
Hence the traders had unofficially but correctly turned the Wednesday market to a Tuesday market.
Talking to the Ghana Information Agency (GNA) in an interview, the traders gave different explanations and interpretations to the directive with regards to the closure of the Wednesday market for the reason that some stated they have been not aware there was no much more official weekly sector day in Sunyani.
Many others just explained they assumed the Wednesday weekly marketplace had been shifted to Tuesday even though some stated they have been wholesalers and distributors and had come “to just source to the suppliers and go back.”
Superintendent Haruna Alhassan, the Taskforce Commander in a further job interview with the GNA expressed be concerned and explained the situation as “unacceptable” because it was drawing back again development staying designed by the ‘city’ authorities in stopping COVID-19 unfold.
He noticed even though, the Sunyani Municipality has not recorded any case of COVID-19, the problem (routines of recalcitrant traders) “is serious and dangerous” because it could guide to the outbreak of the disorder.
Supt. Alhassan explained the Taskforce was, therefore, strengthening its tactics for even more effective operations to avert the disobedient traders “who only consider of income 1st as an alternative of health” from continuing with their illegal `activities about compliance with the current market directives towards the COVID-19.
