PHOTOS: EKMA embarks on decongention exercise
The Efia Kwesimintsim Municipal Assembly has embarked on a decongestion exercise to demarcate hawkers around the Kwesimintsim taxi station and its environs. The exercise was in collaboration with city guards and the police service in order to avert road accidents in the new year considering the various accidents encountered in 2018.
The Municipal Chief Executive of Efia Kwesimintsim Assembly Hon Kojo Acquah stated that, the exercise is to aavert buying and selling on roadsides to enhance easy and safe movement on the road.
“we have been announcing and notifying the market women on the exercise for the past 6 months, and had even been issuing letters but since they (market women) decided not to comply with the peace and sanity they want to create by moving to Apremdo market, the decision called for the decongestion today’’. He added.
‘ we had a durbar two months ago, where market women pleaded to spare them during the Christmas season so could engage in their trading and promised to leave after, so we agreed to shift the date 7th January 2019.”
He also disclosed their several engagements with the market women after the durbar to stop selling on the road disclosing how dangerous it was from the Zongo to Kwame Prah Street, after a management meeting held at their office’’.
He also met with the Mayor for Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly, Hon. K K Sam over the demarcation exercise where they decided to move shoe sellers to the place given at the APREMDO market to ensure peace and safety in their businesses. He said if they had not moved by 15th January, 2019 their place would be given to seamstresses who have been appealing for a place at the market for very long time.
Ama Boadiwa Morcher had interactions with the market women and the taxi drivers who admitted to the fact that they were aware of the decongestion exercise today and appreciated how it will help improve the station and enhance easy movement. The market women appealled for security at the Apremdo market to with regards to storage of their stuff and items. They also also asked for consideration for the aged who also sell there.
The women also complained of the travellers who comes to the station to buy, to put a stop to it.
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Source: thepressradio.com/Ghana/Shella Morcher
