Indigenous women engaged in the sale of charcoal in the Dormaa Central Municipality of the Bono Region have appealed to the government to provide them with tricycles to enhance their economic activities and livelihoods.
The traders located at the Dormaa-Ahenkro new market site said they required the machines to cart firewood from the forest to the local market.
According to them the tricycles would facilitate their movements, relieve them of stress and the exorbitant transportation charges they paid.
They also appealed for a storage facility to keep and protect their bags of charcoal from thieves, saying that since they were relocated to the new market site at Dormaa-Ahenkro thieves had been disturbing them.
The charcoal sellers said they were relocated to the new market site to pave way for the construction of the 24-hour market project at Dormaa-Ahenkro.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Dormaa-Ahenkro, the charcoal sellers expressed concern about the growing cases of charcoal thefts at the new market site, affecting their business growth.
The sellers noted that the space designated for them at the new market site to sell their stuff was not spacious and had only a few market sheds.
Madam Alimata Fuseina, a charcoal seller said the sellers struggle to do business in the wet season, worrying that: “When it rains, we are always left at the mercy of the weather” and worried that their selling space was also close to a public toilet. Another seller, Melinda Adoko also expressed concern about poor patronage of charcoal in the area nowadays, slowing down their businesses.
GNA
