Market women and traders at the Rawlings Park market at Berekum in the Bono Region have appealed to the next NDC gov­ernment to convert the market into a modern one with better facilities to honour the memory of the former head of state.

The current deplorable state of the market, according to the women exposes them to the vagaries of the weather, making business and trading activities unbearable for them.

The market which is an open struc­ture without lockable stores was con­structed during the Rawlings adminis­tration but has since deteriorated.

The leader of the market women, Maame Yaa Badu, made the appeal when the Vice presidential candidate of the NDC visited the area during a campaign tour of the Bono Region

The market, one of the busiest which attracts traders from within and outside the Berekum municipality was earmarked to be named after For­mer president Rawlings but it did not materialise.

The market women subsequently installed Prof. Opoku-Agyemang as a market queen of the Rawlings Park market to signify their unflinching support for the NDC party.

Prof. Opoku-Agyemang on her part appealed to market women to vote massively for former President John Dramani Mahama in the December polls.

The NDC party, she noted has superior policies and programmes to improve the cause of women and Gha­naians in general, saying that the only way such policies could materialise was for the NDC to come to power.

She said the party would establish a women’s bank to offer soft loans to women to support their trading activities as well as improve their livelihoods.

According her, policies such as the big push, apprenticeship programme and 24-Hour economy would boost training and employment opportuni­ties for the youth of the country.

She further challenged Ghanaians to demand accountability from their political leaders, saying that the es­sence of elections was about develop­ment.

 From Daniel Dzirasah, Berekuma