Market girls and customers occupying streets and pedestrian walkways withinside the Central Business District (CBD) of Accra had been given a one-week ultimatum to move far from the streets into the markets.
The Mayor of Accra, Elizabeth Kwatsoe Tawiah Sackey, ordered the customers to vacate the streets on Wednesday, four May 2022, even as she launched proper right into a citywide excursion to observe sanitation situations further to regions earmarked for decongestion wearing sports activities withinside the metropolis.
The Mayor of Accra grew to end up observed via way of approaching the Presiding Member of the AMA and a National Association of Local Authorities of Ghana (NALAG) Presidential hopeful, Alfred Adjei, Metro Coordinating Director, Dr. Ahmed Rufai Ibrahim, and individuals of the venture pressure visited the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) segment of the Independence Avenue thru the Ghana School of regulation to the Kojo Thompson Road withinside the the the front of the Makola mall and ultimately to the Kinbu road.
She defined that the motive of the workout grew to end up to make sure a sustained sanitation pressure withinside the regions and the unfastened go with the flow of vehicular and human traffic.
“We had been lenient sufficient with you all, your grace period has come to an end, we're because of this providing you with every week to transport from the streets and pavements else, be geared up to stand the regulation…
When we come after the stipulated period, anybody determined culpable may be treated and taken to book,” she stated.
“When I met with the queen moms of the markets, they suggested to me the bulk of you've got areas withinside the marketplace however a number of you've got proven cussed and function moved to the streets and pavements to promote all withinside the pursuit for clients which is not good,” she added.
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