Prof Opoku-Agyemang Brokers Peace at Dome Market

The running mate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Prof. Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang, has brokered peace in the leadership crisis at the Dome market in Accra, amidst  jubilation by hundreds of market women. 

A protracted dispute in the Dome Market Traders Association caused a division in the  market’s leadership, with one faction led by madam Evelyn Abena Sebie and the other led by  madam Felicia Karley Amui; both holding themselves out as the legitimate market queen. 

At a durbar of traders to receive Prof Opoku-Agyemang to the Dome market in the Dome Kwabenya constituency on Monday, as part of her tour of markets in the Greater Accra  region, the two market queens in their remarks to welcome the NDC’s running mate,  introduced themselves as the legitimate leaders of the market, casting accusations and  counter-accusations against each other, thereby creating tension in the market. 

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But Prof. Opoku-Agyemang swiftly intervened, encouraging them to bury the hatchet and not  allow their differences to hinder the progress of the market. With the running mate standing  between them on stage, the two market queens for the first time in many years, shook hands  and embraced themselves to signal the end of their impasse, causing a thunderous jubilation  in and around the market. 

Prof Opoku-Agyemang thanked them for agreeing to resolve their dispute and promised to  visit them to have all outstanding issues settled. 

“We should not be fighting in these difficult times. Let us rather unite against hardship and  underdevelopment,” she told the traders. 

According to her, the deplorable state of the market is a concern of the NDC, promising a  face-lift of the market under the next NDC administration. 

“We shall ensure that this market is well developed to make it conducive for trading,” she  assured. 

Apart from the NDC’s plan to redevelop markets around the country, the running mate  assured them of other interventions to support traders and small and medium-scale  enterprises, citing the proposed establishment of the Women’s Development Bank to provide  critical microfinance support for the businesses of women.

Prof. Opoku-Agyemang sympathised with the traders and Ghanaians in general for suffering  the effects of the economic hardship in the country due to the mismanagement of the  economy by the NPP government and assured them of relief under the NDC administration. 

“We have carried both water and alcohol, so we now know the difference,” she said,  referring to the experiences of Ghanaians under the NDC and NPP governments, indicating that the track record of the NDC has clearly out-performed the NPP. 

She therefore urged the traders to vote massively for the NDC to return to power to continue  its good projects, stressing that a vote for the NDC is a vote for development and progress. 

“Development is our goal,” she said, reiterating the NDC’s commitment to all-inclusive  governance without discrimination in the distribution of resources for development. 

From the Dome market, the running mate visited the Kwabenya lorry station where she  addressed hundreds of commercial drivers, commuters, traders and residents, assuring them  of better living conditions under the next NDC administration. 

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