The lead story on the front page of the paper reads “K’si MAYANKA GOES DOWN …. As butchers run after executives”. According to the story the old slaughterhouse (Mayanka) at Ahinsan in Kumasi was pulled down yesterday on the orders of the Ashanti Regional Co-ordinating Council (ARCC) to induce the butchers to move to the new abattoir commissioned last year. According to the paper, some of the butchers looked on helplessly as the old slaughter house was being pulled down, and all efforts by the paper to contact the executives of the Co- operative and Progressive butchers Association for comments proved futile. It was believed that some of the executives of the Association had agreed with the Regional Coordinating Council to demolish the old slaughter house and had to run away for their lives from some angry butchers who had set ablaze the office of the cooperative Butchers Association that morning. The paper concluded that, later when its reporters the new Kumasi Abattoir Company Limited which was next to the old slaughter house to know the level of patronage, Mr. Agyenim Boateng, the Managing Director, said butchers were now turning to the Abattoir. He added that before the demolition of the old slaughterhouse, the new Abattoir was slaughtering an average of 70 cows daily between 5am to 1pm daily, but as at 10am of yesterday over 100 cows had been slaughtered. GRi
