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Finance Minister engages market women in Takoradi ahead of 2026 Budget

Dorcas Abedu-Kennedy — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 18:19:37 +0000

Ahead of the presentation of the 2026 Budget, Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson has engaged traders at Takoradi’s Market Circle as part of his ongoing stakeholder consultations.

Describing the encounter as the highlight of his visit to the Western Region, Dr. Forson said the discussions with the market women were both humbling and inspiring.

“It was clear that our efforts to stabilise the economy are beginning to bear fruit,” he noted after the interaction. “Many spoke of easing prices, renewed confidence, and a growing sense that the tide is finally turning in their favour.”

The engagement forms part of government’s broader efforts to ensure that the 2026 Budget reflects the realities, hopes, and expectations of ordinary Ghanaians.

Dr. Forson is scheduled to present the 2026 Budget Statement and Economic Policy to Parliament on Thursday, November 13, 2025.

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Agotime-Kpetoe market women protest NDC’s failure to appoint female DCE

Abigail Bonney — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:00:03 +0000

Market women in Agotime-Kpetoe, in the Agotime-Ziope District of the Volta Region, have expressed their disappointment and frustration with the National Democratic Congress (NDC) over the party’s failure to appoint a woman, Madam Vicentia Sename Leyo, as the District Chief Executive (DCE) for the area.

The women believe this decision is a missed opportunity for inclusive governance, gender equity, and the empowerment of women in the district.

They stated that women in Agotime have played significant roles in the district’s development, contributing through agriculture, trade, education, and community service. However, they feel continuously sidelined in leadership and decision-making positions.

They had hoped the NDC’s recent appointment of Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) would reflect a commitment to gender inclusivity.

During a press conference at the Agotime-Kpetoe Market on March 31, 2025, the women argued that appointing Madam Vicentia Sename Leyo would have been a strong signal of the government’s commitment to gender equality.

They described her as vibrant, well-educated, industrious, and hardworking, with a track record of dedication during the last elections.

They pointed to the NDC’s 2024 manifesto, which highlighted gender, social protection, and inclusion, and called on the government to implement key policies, including a 30% quota for women in political appointments, the establishment of a Women’s Development Bank, a “Women in Agriculture” initiative, and the resumption of the Market Enhancement Programme to improve facilities such as Kpetoe Market.

The women insisted that a female DCE would have championed issues affecting the marginalized, including inadequate healthcare, poor road infrastructure, lack of access to quality education, water crises, and economic empowerment for women.

They lamented that their voices had once again been ignored, deepening their sense of exclusion in governance.

Moving forward, the women announced plans to engage in community dialogues, advocacy campaigns, and petitions to push for increased female representation in leadership.

They urged President John Dramani Mahama to reconsider the appointment process and ensure competent women like Madam Sename were given opportunities to serve in key positions.

In case she is not appointed DCE, they appealed to the President to offer her a role in another institution where she could continue advocating for women’s empowerment.

Nkwanta South MCE relocates traders on street, pavement [Photos]

Gertrude Okyere — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 12:39:36 +0000

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Nkwanta South in the Oti Region has moved traders to the market center after several months of misunderstanding about their relocation.

The traders took over pavements after a shooting incident at the central market in November 2023 that claimed many lives and destroyed many properties.

In an interview with Adom News, the MCE, Felix Owusu-Gyimah, said the return of the traders signals the restoration of peace and stability, which is crucial for the overall development of the municipality.

He emphasised the importance of traders adhering to the directives as it will help decongest the town and also boost economic activity and provide much-needed goods and services to the residents.

The MCE urged residents involved to continue working together as efforts are being put in place to review the curfew time in the Nkwanta township.

Cracking down the illegal trading activities, he also inspected ongoing projects at the market.

The projects include construction of new market stalls and the provision of other social amenities.

He promised to engage the contractors working on the project to expedite action to ensure they are completed on the scheduled time.

In an interaction with the traders, the MCE entreated them to pay their levies to the Assembly in order to demand their share of development.

The market queen, Doris Yaa Dogbey commended the MCE for the effort to improve the town’s development.

They said his commitment towards enhancing the Municipality’s peace and stability is evident, and they are hopeful for a brighter future ahead.

The market women appealed for completion of the new stalls and the provision of toilet and urinal facilities, as they are always compared to walk for distance anytime they want to attend natures call.

Stop ‘examining’ foodstuffs before buying them – Market women to buyers

Dennis Adu — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 13:28:59 +0000

The President of the Greater Accra Market Women Association, Madam Mercy Naa Afrowa Needham, has appealed to the public to desist from the practice of physically touching foodstuffs in the markets to weigh them before buying.

According to her, the practice of physically turning foodstuffs in-and-out in the market is unhygienic and could help spread COVID-19, particularly if the person touching the foodstuff has the disease.

She said many people who go to the markets to buy foodstuffs such as cassava continually keep picking food items to weigh and examine them in their hands before settling on which one to buy.

Madam Needham was speaking at an event organised by the Alliance of Feminists CSOs in collaboration with Plan International Ghana to mark this year’s International Women’s Day on Monday.

The event, which was on the theme: ‘Women in Leadership- Achieving Equal Future in a COVID-19 World,’ brought together leaders and members of civil society organisations, international organisations, feminists, politicians and leaders of state-owned institutions and politically inclined young females, journalists and students.

The programme was also used to deliberate and propose strategies to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on women and children, especially on girls in Ghana.

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COVID-19 measures

Madam Needham said since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, market women all over the country have suffered unduly.

She explained that the leaderships of the various market centres across the country in their attempts to help contain the disease, have ensured that COVID-19 safety protocols are strictly adhered to in the markets.

That, she added, aside from ensuring compliance with the wearing of nose masks and social distancing, market leaders have also introduced shift systems to help decongest the markets.

Madam Needham said that COVID-19 could be defeated in the country only if all individuals play their roles well, by adhering to the safety protocols.

Education

She also urged parents to prioritise the education of their children, particularly the girl child, suggesting that the market centres will no more accept uneducated people.

She also explained that many formal workers, after retirement, join the markets and so the various markets are becoming a place for the literate and therefore girls who do not go to school with the mindset of joining the market will be disappointed.

Extolling the essence of education, Madam Needham said she personally joined the market as a professional teacher and her education has helped a lot in her business, saying that education in every work is very important.

4 feared dead, others injured in accident on Tamale-Bolga road

Gertrude Okyere — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 16:37:04 +0000

At least four persons are feared dead with others injured in an accident involving market women on the Tamale-Bolgatanga road.

Reports indicate the accident occurred last night between Diari and Savelugu while they were travelling from Pishigu in the Karaga District.

Though the cause of the accident was not immediately known, the truck with registration number NR 7064-G is said to have veered off the road in the middle of the journey.

According to a witness, Christopher Amoako, most of the traders were trapped under bags of maize and soya beans which the truck was transporting.

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The victims are said to be on admission at the Savelugu Hospital after the help of a police patrol vehicle, a pick-up and other vehicles that used the stretch at the time of the incident.

Court orders market women to sign bond of good behaviour for selling deadly puffer fish

Dorcas Abedu-Kennedy — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 06:08:58 +0000

The Donkorkrom magistrate court in the Kwahu Affram Plains district of eastern region has ordered two market women to sign a bond of good behaviour over a period of one year.

The two, 35-year-old Abigail Donkor and 74-year-old Safia Kotoli were arrested and put before court for selling the highly poisonous puffer fish that led to the death of two persons, Forgive Tagbolu, 48 and Veronica Agbobli,71 at Abotanso, a suburb of Donkorkrom.

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The two pleaded guilty to the offence but pleaded with the court to pardon them because they claimed to have had no idea the fish could be poisonous.

His worship, Augustine Akusar-Am ruling, ordered that the rest of the goods be set ablaze in public to serve as a deterrent to others and also ordered the two to sign a bond of good behaviour.

Two persons died while four others were admitted at the Presbyterian Hospital in Afram Plains after consuming Pufferfish.

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Meanwhile, the district assembly has set up a committee to educate the public on the dangers associated with the consumption of the fish.

Police officer educates market women on the use of “the tongue”

Adwoa Agyeman — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 09:29:59 +0000

Corporal Daniel Kwasi Ofori Appiah, Founder of the Watch Your Tongue (WYT), campaign team, has advised market women to maintain their customers and get prospective ones by improving their human relations through “watching of their tongues”.

“Watching your tongue” means using pleasant words, avoiding derogatory words, insults or name calling that demean an individual but respecting all people irrespective of their age, race or creed,” he explained.

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This was during one of the campaign events by the police officer and his team with market women at the Madina Ogbojo New Market in Accra under the WYT campaign.

Interacting with the market women, he said, the tongue was a small part of the body, but was the most powerful.

“As traders, the tongue is also an essential tool in your daily transactions therefore, the need for the education. Relationship between you and your customers can be cordial and maintain them depending on the kind of words used.”

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He said some people were losing their incomes and jobs due to their tongues and actions that spoke louder than words.

“Not only should you watch your tongues, but also live in harmony with your colleagues through their speeches and gestures,” he stated.

The Founder, who also works at the court of the law and a musician believes that right attitude in life and appropriate posts/inscriptions in the various media make the world a safer place.

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He said WYT was an on-going campaign to inculcate the habit of pleasant utterances among Ghanaians more especially.

The education programme touches on indiscipline in Ghana and vices such as fighting, hate speech, defamatory statements, so as to build the spirit of oneness and patriotism in the citizenry.

Corporal Appiah has observed that most people who ended up sending others to court or being dragged to court were as a result of unsavoury comments which led to provocation and the worse happened.

The initiative, he said would help prevent untoward circumstances caused by unpleasant remarks that can lead individuals or groups to face the law.

He added that indiscriminate and tribal statements, religious and unguarded pronouncements could also generate confusion and divide Ghanaians as a people, thus, the need to preach peace all the time.

WYT Campaign, he said was not going on only in Ghana, but also UK, Spain, USA, Dubai and called on all and sundry to support it.

He urged them to spread the “good news,” to enable them also live peacefully with the family and neighbours.

Madam Kate Dadzie, the queen for the market was happy about the gesture and said, it will transform their lives.

She noted that if all Ghanaians were mindful of their tongues, the nation would be a haven to live in with adequate development.

HOT AUDIO: Traders beg Akufo-Addo over "big grammar"

Dorcas Abedu-Kennedy — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 12:53:57 +0000

Traders at the Kaneshie Market are complaining bitterly over what they call ‘Big English’ by President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo.
They want the president to either speak local languages more often or speak simple English more audibly so that they can hear and understand him.
This is not the first time a comment has been passed about the slurring of President Nana Addo.
The first time was when former President John Mahama teased the current president during the electioneering campaign for evading a debate and going on radio to speak what he called “big English”.
Listen to the traders
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The traders said the want the president to tone down on the big English and slurring.
“We can hardly here Nana Addo when he speaks. We the market women can’t hear him and so we don’t know what’s happening to our economy. He should speak form four English and we will understand him else he will face our wrath. We voted for him and so he should think about us too” the traders cried.
Meanwhile, Professor Nana Essilfie Kondua of African University College of Communications agreed with the traders, saying that it is time government officials speak more local languages or used interpreters when they speak with the public.
Listen to the professor
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Hot Audio: Makola market women seize public toilets

Dorcas Abedu-Kennedy — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 19:04:57 +0000

Some traders at the Makola 31^st market in Accra have taken over public toilet in the market.
The group, Makola Market Women Union, believed to be supporters of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) wants the NDC affiliated Makola Women Association to officially handover the management of the facilities or face their wrath.
Vice President of Union, Naana Okraku Ohene who spoke on behalf of the women said they have been forced to take over of the facility because their colleagues from the NDC did not manage it well.
She said facilities are usually managed by both parties but since the NDC handed over power to the NPP, the NDC representatives have failed to render proper accounts.
“Those managing the facilities are not taking good care of them and are not rendering proper accounts and so we have decided to take over. We all contributed to build that facility and won’t allow anyone to destroy it” she said.
Listen to the angry women

Ashaiman traders to demonstrate over poor condition of market

Dorcas Abedu-Kennedy — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 09:31:51 +0000

Traders in the Ashaiman main market have threatened to demonstrate against the Ashaiman Municipal Assembly (ASHMA) over the poor condition of the market.
The traders, who were visibly not happy about the Ashaiman main market condition, therefore issued a one week ultimatum to the Assembly to fix the problem or face their wrath.
When the Ghana News Agency (GNA), visited the market on Friday, the entire floor which was not paved was muddy making it difficult for buyers to visit the sheds to buy, as they had wade through the mud, falling and bumping into each other as well trying so hard not to push wares on display onto the bare ground.
Ms Magaret Asentewaa, a palmnut seller, told the GNA that the Assembly had neglected their needs even though they collect daily levies of 50 Ghana Pesewas from every trader.
Mrs Asantewaa added that the several reports made to officials of ASHMA had not yielded any positive result and that the only way to compel the authorities to act was to embark on a demonstration to express their displeasure adding that “we will ensure it will be a naked demo”.
She stated that the market was always muddy even when it had not rained due to a water pipeline leakage.
Mrs. Leticia Ayabah, the Ashaiman Market Queen Mother, on her part, disclosed that the poor condition of the market was affecting their sales as buyers felt reluctant to enter the market to buy and preferred buying from the roadside.
Mrs Ayabah said the situation coupled with daily increase in prices of goods was greatly affecting their business hence their inability to meet their family obligations.
Some traders also appealed to the Assembly to eject people selling on the roadside as a way to ensure that buyers enter the market to buy “irrespective of the market conditions”.
Mr Braima Bukari Abdulai, Presiding Member for ASHMA, reacting to the concerns of the traders, pleaded with them to exercise patience as according to him, the Assembly was putting in measures to address their concerns.
Mr Abdulai announced that the Assembly would soon embark on a massive decongestion exercise in the main market to clear the leans and ensure free movement of people and goods.

PHOTOS: Tamale market women threaten to vote against Nana Addo

Dorcas Abedu-Kennedy — Mon, 15 May 2017 18:44:52 +0000

A demolition exercise embarked by the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly led by the Mayor, Musah Iddrisu at the Tamale market Monday morning seems to have incurred the wrath of some market women whose structures were completely destroyed.
The angry market women expressed their displeasure at President Akufo-Addo for what they described as endorsing the exercise at the expense of their businesses and monies for their livelihoods.

According to them, they were not given any prior notice before their structures were destroyed.

They have therefore vowed to vote against the Nana Akufo Addo in the 2020 general elections.

“The mayor didn’t tell us about this development earlier but he only came last Friday afternoon and asked us not to come to the market on Monday because they will demolish our structures.

“Nana Addo has disappointed us because they never informed us that they will sack us but now they have come to sack us from the market to suffer. We will vote against him if he fails to help us” one angry woman said.

“How can we take care of our children if he takes our businesses from us. We don’t have any help from any were but now they said we should go home and die. 2020 is just around the corner and so we will teach them a lesson” one trader warned.

But the mayor told Adom News’ Illiasu Abdul Rauf that the traders were informed months earlier and therefore could not fathom the conduct of the traders.

“I announced this several times on radio stations about three months ago so this is not new to them so we have started the exercise today and it is going to remain till I’m no more a public servant,” he said.