Business activities decline as Supreme Court announce verdict

The usual briskness associated with selling and buying activities, amidst the regular vehicular and human traffic in the central business district of the Kumasi Metropolis, was missing on Thursday as the Supreme Court prepared to deliver its verdict on the 2012 election petition.

Most of the traders, for various reasons failed to turn up at the few markets stands setup in and around the popular Kejetia bus terminal compelling the few who had showed up to conduct their usual business to cash in on the handful of people who were around to trade.  

While many of the traders were lamenting on the absence of their colleagues, for fear of the outcome of the election petition, others were happy because they had monopoly to sell more to the number of people who were in the market to trade. However, they were hopeful that the pronouncement of the Supreme Court while strengthening the country’s democratic credentials, would also inform investors of the peaceful atmosphere that exist in the country for the growth of business.

Although the trading public seemed to have been the worst affected with the general decline of trading activities, commercial vehicle operators were also badly affected as very few people were in town to engage their services.