A newly established market has been opened in Margibi County to empower locals in the business sector.
The Philip Saa Tali Community market is located few minute drives from Kakata City along the main road in Cinta along the Weala-Kakata highway.
Speaking to Reporters following the opening of the market over the weekend, Charles Fayia Songor the founder of the market said it had been his dream to have a place where the people of Cinta and its environs can converge on a daily basis to have their produce sold.
He said during harvest, thousands of dollars’ worth of local crops is destroyed due to bad or no road for farmers to trade their commodities. He said the new market will create an avenue for citizens to have access to goods and service to boost the flow capital in the area and its surrounding.
“When you look at the distance from Kakata to the boundary of Margibi and Bong Counties, there is no market on the road for Thursdays and other days,” he said.
Mr. Songor said the citizens are expected to have numerous benefits from the market because the need to transport goods to far places to sell has been eradicated.
“This was done so the community can have their own market so that they don’t have to struggle kakata or Bong County unless they want to. So I want the community to develop this market as their own,” he intimated.
For his part, Mr. Philip Saa Tali express his gratitude for the market. He urged residents of the community make maximum use of the facility.
“The idea of constructing a market in Cinta Township is for our people to promoting agricultural activities and to interact with each other during the market days,” Saa Tali noted.
According to him other markets in that part of the country operates once a week but the Philip Saa Tali market will run all through the week providing storage and other facilities for the marketers.
For her part, Margibi County Marketing Superintendent Elizabeth Saybah Kokulo cautioned marketers to take care of the market and make sure all rules and regulations governing the marketing association are abided by.
