{"id":388051,"date":"2018-01-02T14:39:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T14:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=388051"},"modified":"2018-01-03T06:35:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T06:35:31","slug":"ama-gives-hawkers-one-week-to-relocate-ahead-of-decongestion-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=388051","title":{"rendered":"AMA gives hawkers one week to relocate for decongestion exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), has given all hawkers and traders encroaching on pavements, footbridges, and other open spaces within the metropolis a one-week ultimatum to relocate or be caught up in an impending decongestion exercise.<\/p>\n<p>The Assembly in a statement said the activities of these hawkers and traders contribute to littering along roads in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the focus areas for the decongestion exercise include Kaneshie Market Area, Odorkor-Kwashieman road, Nima Highway, Agbobloshie, Kwame Nkrumah Interchange and its environs.<\/p>\n<p>The AMA said their activities were running contrary to the AMA hawkers bye-law of 2011, and section 117(1) of the road traffic regulations, 2012(L.I.2180).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-388052\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AMA-statement.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AMA-statement.jpg 620w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AMA-statement-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), has given all hawkers and traders encroaching on pavements, footbridges, and other open spaces within the metropolis a one-week ultimatum to relocate or be caught up in an impending decongestion exercise. The Assembly in a statement said the activities of these hawkers and traders contribute to littering along roads in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":388055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[618,119,5679],"class_list":["post-388051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-accra","tag-ama","tag-decongestion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=388051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/388055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}