The Ministry of Women and Children�s Affairs (MOWAC) on Wednesday said it was conducting checks on reports alleging that 20 girls selling iced water had been arrested by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) taskforce on various streets of Accra.
The Ministry also said the AMA had rejected claims that the 20
iced water sellers had been found guilty by the AMA Court and
subsequently sent to the Nsawam Prisons because they could not pay for
the GH�600 fines imposed on them.
A statement signed by Mrs Juliana Azumah-Mensah, Minister of
Women and Children�s Affairs, said a follow-up by MOWAC on the report
at AMA indicated that even though the Assembly had been engaged in the
enforcement of the hawking bye-laws, the taskforce had not arrested
and prosecuted 20 girls in the AMA court.
It said that according to the AMA, street sellers, who had been
arrested and prosecuted, were those who on various occasions had
attacked and assaulted the AMA taskforce in their attempt to get them
off the streets.
�The ministry is conducting further checks on the issue to
address the situation,� it said, and appealed to the street hawkers to
desist from attacking the taskforce who had been mandated to enforce
the bye-laws.
The statement also called on the AMA taskforce to exercise
restraint and adopt a human face in the exercise of their duties.
Source: GNA
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