By Bertha Badu-Agyei
Accra, Nov 7, GNA-Mrs Dora Nyarko Biney, People’s National Convention (PNC) Parliamentary candidate for Dome-Kwabenya constituency says she would create a fund to support traders acquire decent stalls at the Dome market to improve their trading activities.
She noted that most women at the Dome market, one of the busiest trading centres in Accra sold on the roadside and on the railways due to lack of funds to pay for the huge cost of stalls and shops in the market.
“Improving the situation of markets especially the Dome market will be my major focus to tackle to ensure that every trader gets a stall or decent shed to trade other than the railways and roadside.”
Speaking in an interview with the GNA Gender-Desk, Mrs Nyarko Biney, the only PNC parliamentary candidate in Greater Accra appealed to the electorate to vote for her to change the face of the constituency.
She observed that most of the traders could not afford the huge cost involved in purchasing shops or stalls built in the market and peripherals, hence selling by the roadside, and assured that it would be a thing of the past if she gets the nod.
The fund according to her would be in the form of interest free loan paid for shops for the beneficiaries and then they pay back on a flexible term.
That way, the burden of looking for money to pay for a shop as outright purchase or hiring will be removed and traders would do their businesses in a more conducive environment to boost the local economy and their own living standards.
Mrs Biney is a 32-year-old Businesswoman and has been the Dome-Kwabenya constituency organizer for the PNC and currently the Greater Accra regional women’s organiser of the party.
The Dome-Kwabenya constituency is one of the largest and populated constituencies in Ghana and has been a stronghold of the NPP.
The current MP, Ms Ajoa Safo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) lost her third time bid at the parties primaries to Mr Mike Ocquaye Jnr, Ghana’s Ambassador to India.
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