The AMA taskforce putting wooden tables by the traders in a truck during the excercise
Traders selling their wares on the shoulders of the Nima highway in Accra were yesterday evicted by officials of Ayawaso East Municipal Assembly in a decongestion exercise.
The exercise which started at 8:30am and aimed at bringing sanity on the roads, also saw the removal of abandoned vehicles from the streets to allow traffic flow.
When the Ghanaian Times got to scene at about 11:30am the members of the taskforce from the assembly were busy removing tables and structures used by the traders for selling on the streets.
Some traders who were not happy with the decongestion exercise hurled invectives on the officials with others stating that they would not go back to the market to sell their wares.
Police personnel from the Nima Divisional Command and the Accra Regional Police Command were there to ensure law and order.
The Municipal Coordinating Director of the Ayawaso East Assembly, Nii Amarh Ashitey, told the Ghanaian Times that the exercise would ensure safety for both the road users and traders.
He said some of the traders had removed wooden slabs on the gutters and dumped refuse, which had choked most of the drains in the area, causing perennial flooding anytime it rained.
Mr Ashitey said the traders had abandoned the market to sell on the streets, which was not safe.
The director advised the traders to desist from selling their wares on the streets because the exercise would be sustained, stating that “a taskforce would be constituted with support from the police to patrol the areas to ensure the traders did not come back to the streets to sell their wares.”
He appealed to the public to desist from buying from traders on the streets, adding that such practice would discourage them from selling on the streets.
Mr Ashitey expressed the assembly’s readiness in ensuring a clean environment to protect the people in the area.
By Anita Nyarko-Yirenkyi
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