Dear Honourable,
The day may be young for your tenure but not too early to make plans for the future. I wrote to you a letter on Anomabo regarding sanitation, tourism and education last week. It is my hope you received it. Today I write to you about Ekumfi.
Ekumfi is a new District saddled with many developmental challenges. They are so many that I at times ask myself what at all was done when it was part of the Mfantseman District? Clearly, NOTHING!
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Ekumfi lacks everything. IT EVEN LACKS A BEFITTING MARKET SPACE FOR OUR MOTHERS AND SISTERS WHOSE ONLY MEANS OF SURVIVAL IS PETTY TRADING. It was even the late President Mills who started the process to bring PORTABLE WATER to my people. Thanks to the John Mahama administration many parts now have water supply. This is the reason I still don't understand why the Central Regional Development Commission (CEDECOM) built a rest stop, which has become a white elephant at Ekumfi Abontsin, instead of building a market.
Wednesdays are market days in EKUMFI, and yesterday I was there to observe. On such day’s itinerant traders, mostly, women from far and near come to Esuehyia to hawk their wares. It's a once a week opportunity for the women in Ekumfi, mostly farmers to sell their produce. Presently it is the only organised economic activity in the District. Their produce are still displayed on the ground. Throughout the week, however, women, young and old, hawk pineapples and other fruits by the Mankessim-Winneba Highway. A very dangerous venture.
Ekumfi is now a District on its own and the local government now has the responsibility to engineer the theoretical framework and the physical infrastructure for the economic prosperity of the people. I am of the conviction your high office can be instrumental in making this a priority. One immediate thing to do is to create space for the kind of economic activity popular with the people. I am talking of a practice that is as Old as the coming of Borbor Fantse to the present location, over 600 years.
What we call a market in Ekumfi is a shame. A very big shame that must be corrected with a sense of urgency.
There is land available in Ekumfi and in a futuristic thinking I am convinced we should immediately, through thorough consultations, secure TEN Acres of land at a strategic location for a market. I am looking at something to rival Mankessim in the next 15-20 years that will also attract money into the purses of our mothers in Ekumfi and be a source of income for the local government too. We do not need to build anything expensive if we don't have the funds. We just must do something to show we are looking at something better.
The population is a growing and very youthful one and we have no time to leave anything to chance. WE MUST ENGINEER THE SYSTEM.
Yours Faithfully,
Hotep Abeku Adams
Citizen Not Spectator
Son of Ekumfi
Cc:
The President of the Republic
Nananom, Ekumfi
MP, Ekumfi
DCE, Ekumfi
C.E.O, CEDECOM
NB: OUR IMMEDIATE PAST MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT (MP), 'HON. ABEIKU CRENTSIL' RATHER BUILT FOR HIMSELF A 3-STAR HOTEL JUST ABOUT HALF A KILOMETRE FROM THIS SHAMEFUL MARKET FOR A DISTRICT ABOUT THREE TIMES THE SIZE OF CAPE COAST IN LAND AREA.