The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), has cautioned hawkers and traders within the metropolis to stay off pavements, footbridges and other unauthorized structures as it carries out a massive decongestion exercise today Monday 8th January 2018.
The Assembly, in a notice served to traders n December 2017, bemoaned that activities of these traders in unauthorized areas affected vehicular and human traffic, with heaps of garbage found on major roads across the capital.
The decongestion exercise, which was spearheaded by the Metropolitan Security Committee will focus on these major areas the Central Business District, Kaneshie Market Area, N1 highway, Kwame Nkrumah Interchange and the Odorkor-Kwashieman road.
The AMA indicated that, the activities of the traders and hawkers violated the AMA hawkers bye-law of 2011, and section 117(1) of the road traffic regulations, 2012(L.I.2180).
Meanwhile, President of the Greater Accra Market Women Association Mercy Needjan, has declared her support for the decongestion exercise.
She emphasized that, although the enforcement of the laws would cause some inconvenience to some traders, it would benefit the general populace, adding that; “this is a task that must be undertaken at all cost.”
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