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Last night’s crunch meeting with emissary from Asantehemaa convinced traders at Adum to ‘temporarily’ reopen their shops; ahead of another meeting with the head of the Ashanti regional security council.
The Ashanti Business Owners Association in the Kumasi central business district (Adum) have been on a four day strike since, Monday, 10th October, 2002
On a visit this morning by Onuaonline.com saw hitherto, closed shops opened on Friday morning.
Executive secretary to the Ashanti Business Owners Association, Charles Kusi Appiah-Kubi has earlier told Akoma News that “we held a crunch meeting with emissary from Asantehemaa and we accorded our mother the respect to open our shops.”
Another member of the group also told our reporter Issah Zakaria “Yesterday we visited the regional coordinating council to have an engagement with the regional minister but unfortunately our meeting has to be rescheduled today at 10am. We also met with a delegation from the Ashantihema’s palace and upon the plea from the delegation from the royal palace we decided to open our shops today”, he said.
However, he noted that if the association’s meeting ends inconclusively with the regional minister, they shall resume their strike action again until their demands are met by government and relevant stakeholders.
The Ashanti Business Owners Association who trade in fast moving consumer goods have been on an industrial action for four days over what they described as “high and unrealistic” tax sysem of the economy, high rate of borrowing, low gross margin, high inflation rate and forex hikes which have been factors bedeviling their businesses.
By Issah Zakariah/uniquenewsgh.com
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