{"id":390298,"date":"2018-01-10T17:03:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T17:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=390298"},"modified":"2018-01-11T05:17:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T05:17:43","slug":"release-our-seized-wares-traders-plead-with-ama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=390298","title":{"rendered":"Release our seized wares – Traders plead with AMA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some traders from Accra have appealed to the\u00a0Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to release their goods which were seized during the recent decongestion exercise in the capital.<\/p>\n

They trooped to the premises of Citi FM<\/strong> on Wednesday to complain about what they also described as unfair treatment from the AMA.<\/p>\n

The traders showed receipts from the AMA, which they said were issued, granting them permission to sell on the streets of the Metropolis.<\/p>\n

“We pay 50 pesewas all the time. We have packed a lot of tickets,” one of them said.<\/p>\n

Thus, they accused the city authorities of bad faith after the seizure some of their wares.<\/p>\n

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Mercy Zadake, who led the traders, told Citi News <\/strong>that she and her colleagues were pleading they be at least given their\u00a0goods back.<\/p>\n

“We are pleading with the government. They should have pity on use. We\u2019ll even come and carry our things ourselves,” she said.<\/p>\n

“They [AMA] seized our wares and take them to thier office. They should have been patient. It is so frustrating to get them [our wares] back even if you are fortunate enough.”<\/p>\n

“We pay our tolls regularly so they should please let us be or how else will we pay our children\u2019s school fees. These are not small [school] fees. How am I going to pay?” she pleaded.<\/p>\n

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The Metropolitan Chief Executive of the AMA, Mohammed\u00a0Adjei Sowah, on Monday led a team of officers from the Assembly, including\u00a0metro guards and police officers, to clear hawkers off pavements in the metropolis.<\/p>\n

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Mohammed\u00a0Adjei Sowah (C) with some officers during the decongestion exercise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The activities of the hawkers and the traders on the shoulders of roads and on pavements are noted to impede human and vehicular traffic.<\/p>\n

This also contributes to the waste build-up along streets.<\/p>\n

While confiscating\u00a0some wares and materials belonging to traders, the team locked up some businesses that were operating illegally and those that had been sited at unapproved places.<\/p>\n

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By: Michael Ogbodu & Delali Adogla-Bessa\/ctifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some traders from Accra have appealed to the\u00a0Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to release their goods which were seized during the recent decongestion exercise in the capital. They trooped to the premises of Citi FM on Wednesday to complain about what they also described as unfair treatment from the AMA. The traders showed receipts from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":390303,"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":[5,11],"tags":[1571,3,4885],"class_list":["post-390298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories","tag-accra-metropolitan-assembly","tag-ghana-news","tag-hawkers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390298","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=390298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/390303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}