The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), has vowed not to relent in its efforts to clear all unauthorized traders along the streets of the Metropolis despite resistance from some hawkers.
According to the Director of Public Relations of the AMA, Numo Blafo III, recent attacks and threats by traders at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle interchange will not deter the assembly from sanitizing the city through the implementation of its bye-laws.
[contextly_sidebar id=”Yw3FdofFTUznBWH5Bw1g1JoMZVifQO1Z”]His comment comes on the back of reports of physical attacks carried out by some hawkers on officials of the AMA task-force in the area.
“We are resolute that they [the hawkers] will never come back on the pavements; after all the pavements are meant for the pedestrians and that is what we will make sure it is used for. It is not a trading post meant for trading activities. And we are going to make sure that the pavements in the metropolis are not turned into markets,” he said.
Four officials of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) working at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle interchange in Accra, were earlier this week attacked by some angry traders at the Kwame Nkrumah circle.
The traders unleashed their physical aggression on the officials when they tried to evict them from the pavement on Tuesday evening
Numo Blafo III said such attacks must be condemned, and called on the media to support the assembly to fight such happenings.
He reiterated the assembly’s commitment to rid the city of human and vehicular congestion caused by trading activities conducted on pavements.
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By: Jonas Nyabor/citifmonline.com/Ghana