{"id":58177,"date":"2014-10-21T11:21:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T11:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=58177"},"modified":"2014-10-21T11:21:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T11:21:02","slug":"kwame-nkrumah-circle-project-under-threat-from-traders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/10\/kwame-nkrumah-circle-project-under-threat-from-traders\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwame Nkrumah Circle project under threat from traders"},"content":{"rendered":"
Work\u00a0 on the three-tier interchange at the Kwame Nkrumah circle might not meet the May, 2015 deadline due to the increasing trade activities around the construction site.<\/p>\n
Several traders, after being ejected from their shops at the Nkrumah Circle, have now set up their structures under the flying beam and along the main road adjacent to the construction site to sell their goods.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n Items being sold by traders at the Circle area include; second hand clothing, phones, food stuffs and electrical items.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Speaking to citifmonline.com,<\/em><\/strong> most of the traders insisted they have no intention of leaving the area as they had nowhere to go having been displaced prior to the destruction of the footbridge. <\/a><\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Safety Officer at the site a contractor on site, Andrew Kofi Amoateng has warned that the refusal of the traders to move from the construction site could result in a possible delay of the project and has called on authorities to intervene since several attempts by contractors to relocate these traders have so far proved futile.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThey cannot sack us from here because the chief contractor gave us permission to sell here because he had pity on us. If they sack us, we will come back here because we cannot engage in armed robbery\u201d – she said<\/p>\n