There has not been meat sold within the Bolgatanga market for the past two weeks as butchers within the township have denied to relocate to a new abattoir.
The Bolgatanga Civil Gathering within the Upper East Region in a offered to fathom the issue called for applications from butchers to work the recently developed abattoir at Yorogo, a community within the District.
The call came after butchers at the ancient abattoir declined to relocate to the unused abattoir after a few arrangements with administration and individuals of the Bolgatanga Butchers’ Affiliation.
The abattoir was developed in July 2017 with subsidizing bolster from the World Bank and was commissioned for utilize in 2018 with advanced butchering and animal handling offices, lavatories, and a structure.
Taking after the decay by the butchers to relocate, the Gathering bolted up the ancient abattoir for the past one week and issued a open declaration to enroll butchers to work within the modern office.
“Interested people are hence to yield applications for thought as butchers. All applications must be tended to to the Civil Chief Official and submitted at the registry of the Get together on or some time recently Friday, 28th January 2022,†administration of the Gathering said.
In an prior meet, Tindaazok Koldo, the Chief Butcher at the ancient abattoir, said prior to the development of the modern abattoir, the authority of the Butchers Affiliation was not counseled.
Concurring to him, there had not been any dialog between the butchers and administration of the Gathering, and after the completion, he and his colleagues declined to relocate.
Mr Koldo said separated from the need of interview, the modern abattoir may not oblige the around 400 butchers who worked within the ancient abattoir, including that there was no animals advertise close the modern abattoir at Yorogo to keep them in trade.
“In the event that the Get together can move the animals showcase to Yorogo, we'll relocate. But because it stands, we cannot move there without the animals advertise,†the Chief Butcher told the GNA.
Opposite to the issues raised by the Chief Butcher, the Metropolitan Chief Executive, Mr Rex Asanga, told the GNA that the Get together had held a arrangement of gatherings with the butchers and indeed marked a Notice of Understanding to address their concerns.
He said the butchers would got to relocate to the modern office some time recently the animals showcase can be relocated, including that the butchers as it were devoured around 40 per cent of the animals, whereas the remaining 60 per cent was transported to Southern Ghana and belittled by individuals of the open.
Mr Asanga famous that the animals showcase seem not be moved quickly, “That will not be reasonable to the cattle dealers. They too have their issues,†he included.