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The newly constructed Legon-Adenta dual carriage highway is under threat of early destruction following the extremely lawless manner in which traders in and around the Madina market have taken over the road. This eyesore is located right around the area known as Zongo Junction and has taken about 20 kilometers of the stretch of road and growing. Not only is this a threat to the newly constructed highway but to the very lives of the traders who have blocked the road with their wares. These traders have abandoned the stores and sheds within the confines of the Madina Market and have literally pitched camp on the road, causing serious human and vehicular traffic. City authorities are currently looking on helplessly as the situation gets out of hand. At its current rate of growth, there is a high possibility that the canker would spread into Adenta and probably near the toll booth on the way to Aburi by the end of the year. One interesting aspect of this development is that some agents from the city authorities charge the traders a minimum of GH�6 a day, for doing business on the road, the same amount taken from traders who are inside the Madina market. When one is heading to Adenta from Legon, right when you start descending the newly opened overhead bridge is a sea of umbrellas and tents around which there is brisk business. Every buyable item can be found at the market from all sorts of food stuffs and domestic products through school and office items, automobile parts to building materials etc. You are welcomed by children who have abandoned school to either make quick cash by selling polythene bags and other small items or are there to help their parents/guardians to ply their trade. Driving on, you enter the think of affairs where the items that have been displayed by these traders on the pavements have come onto the main road and this has been worsened by the illegal activity of the trotro and taxi drivers who can only be described as �partners in crime� of these traders.