Butchers Association Urges Gov’t to use part of the IMF fund to stabilize business communities.
The National Vice chairman of the Ghana Meat Sellers & Cutters Association, Chief Ibrahim Wahab Tikuma has suggested that the number of businesses which are on the verge of collapse in the country can be revived if government set aside part of the first trench of the IMF fund to support them.
Speaking to the Correspondent in an interview in reaction to the state of business development, especially the meat industry in the country, Chief Wahab commended government for systematically coming out with policies that could revamp the meat industry.
The butchers Vice president observed that the activities of butchers are gradually under restoration as a result of climate change in the industry and this is change is creating peace,unity and harmony within the butchers across the country.
He linked the yet to be successful story of the butchers to the exchange rates of dollar and Cfa which have slightly gone down to enable the butchers purchase cattle from the neighborhood countries like Burkina Faso Mali among others.
Chief Wahab hinted that though the butchers currently have few cattle to depend on to remain in business, with the early rains, the meat operators can buy more cattle at an affordable prices from the five Northern Regions who are noted for cattle ranching.
He described Ghana’s cattle as very tasteful and of high quality because the animals are feed naturally as compared to the foreign ones which are feed through technological methods.
Calling for a strong maintenance drive to sustain businesses in the country, Chief Wahab urged government to do more to ensure the stabilisation of the cedi to ensure the rapid socio economic development of the country.
The Vice President took the opportunity to advise those frustrated butchers to come back to work and renew their hope in the government since the new breeze blowing within the meat industry gives a clear evidence that the challenges confronting the butchers would come to pass.
