The exercise, which commenced in the early hours of the day saw, the MCE and his team visit the Central Business District, Kwame Nkrumah interchange, Tip-toe lane, Kokomlemle among other areas, where they destroyed illegal structures and ejected hawkers.

They also seized vehicles parked pedestrian walkways.

The action was in a bid to ensure sanity within the metropolis as the activities of the hawkers and the traders on the shoulders of the road and pavements impede human and vehicular movement, as well as result in the creation of huge waste along the streets.

While confiscating some 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.

Some business owners were also arrested.

Mr. Adjei Sowah told Citi News that his outfit will not relent in its efforts to ensure that the exercise succeeds.

He added that the exercise will be continued tomorrow where they will visit others areas including Kaneshie and Agbogloshie.

The Coordinating Director of the Assembly, Samuel Ayeh-Datey also noted that the wares confiscated will be donated to some orphanages.

A similar exercise was also carried out today in the Kumasi metropolis despite resistance from some traders whose activities along the street had become a nuisance to motorists.

In the New Juaben Municipality of the Eastern Region, the Metropolitan Chief Executive, Comfort Asante, has warned traders to desist from plying their trade on the pavements and along the streets following the expiry of the yuletide grace period she gave them in December.

She lamented that the traders had vacated a newly constructed market to sell on the streets.

The various assemblies across the country are part of efforts to sanitize space in the country and ensure sanity as pledged by President Akufo-Addo in various public addresses.

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The Assembly has also announced its major plan to beautify the capital through some projects to be rolled out soon.

[contextly_sidebar id=”bnoxfnV7Lmksnpk3twjOt9hyWbsAvl9k”]The Metropolitan Chief Executive of Accra, Adjei Sowah, at a press conference said the measures will ensure that the city becomes the cleanest city in Africa.

“We shall soon publish the Accra City beautification plan which will lay out our plans for promoting stunning architectural designs, urban landscaping, beautification of open spaces and tree planting actions among others.”

“We must enforce our by-laws. Our existing by-laws will be stringently enforced. We have therefore initiated a holistic review of the by-laws. Penal consequences for breaching the laws of the city will be hashed. Offenders will no longer be handled with kid gloves,” he said.

The Assembly has come under intense pressure over its seeming loss of control in managing the city space which is evident in the quantum of filth and level indiscipline by motorists within the metropolis.

Citi News has in the last few weeks exposed the sickening situation of sanitation and waste management within the metropolis.

Open dumping of waste along major streets appears common in most parts of the metropolis with very little being done to check the menace.

But the Mr. Sowah believes that things will change for the better.

This comes after President Akufo-Addo promised to make Accra the cleanest city in Africa by the end of his tenure.

“The commitment I want to make, and for all of us to make, is that by the end of my term in office, Accra will be the cleanest city on the entire African continent. That is the commitment I am making,” he said at a durbar organised by the Ngleshie Alata Traditional Area at Jamestown.

The AMA boss has said he is determined to ensure that the measures put in place deliver the results that will ensure the fulfillment of the President’s promise.

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