The LCB Worldwide Ghana Limited and the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA)last Saturday took the Market Centres Fumigation project to Cape Coast.
The exercise covered thousands of shops in an effort to ensure traders in the region went about their business in a conducive and congenial atmosphere.
The three main Market Centresin Cape Coast namely, the Kotokoraba Market, Anafo Market and Abura Market were fully fumigated.
The market centres fumigation project is an initiative of LCB Worldwide in collaboration with GUTA with the overarching objective of supporting government’s efforts to quell the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and is done free of charge as part of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of the company.
The plan according to the Chief Executive Officer of the Mr Kareem Abu was to undertake the exercise across the country, with a focus on market centres.
“Our plan is to cover market centres across the country to ensure that we bring some amount of relief to the traders as they go about their business. As a company, we’ll do our bit by fumigating the market centres and also appeal to the traders to compliment this initiative by adhering to the safety protocols. If we join forces in our collective drive to win the fight against the pandemic, we can indeed win together.” Mr Abu said in an interview with the media during the exercise.
He said the company deemed the project imperative as it provided an opportunity to give back to society as part of its CSR.
Nana Kwabena Peprah, a National Executive Member of GUTA expressed gratitude to the leadership of GUTA in the Central Region and the traders in general for their cooperation which saw the exercise pass off smoothly.
He assured that the national leadership of GUTA would continue to make the welfare of traders in the country a priority.
Nana Peprah who also doubles as the Greater Accra Regional Chairman of GUTA entreated Corporate Ghana to emulate the shiny example of LCB Worldwide by lending their support to the citizenry in such difficult moments.
LCB Worldwide has been contracted by the government to see to the disinfection of all cargoes leaving or entering the ports as well as points of entry and exits.
The move is in line with the requirements of the World Health Organisation’s International Health Regulations.
