AMA orders hawkers to vacate pavements
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has cautioned the general
public especially, hawkers who have encroached on pavements, footbridges
and other open spaces to vacate these places.
The AMA in a statement signed by the Coordinating Director, Sam
Ayeh-Datey, said it will be conducting a decongestion exercise to rid
the metropolis of their activities.
The statement read: “We wish to bring to the fore that, their
activities are a contributory factor to the heaps of garbage deposited
along the roads and additionally, they also place themselves in harm’s
way as vehicles can accidentally crash into them as had been witnessed
many times before. The assembly wishes to remind them that, their
activities are contrary to the AMA hawkers bye-law of 2011 and section
117(1) of the road traffic regulations, 2012(lLI. 2180), and are
punishable by law.
“Furthermore, the AMA wishes to remind all property owners within its
jurisdiction of the premises maintenance bye-law 1995, which directs
property owners or occupiers of the need to ‘white wash, paint or put
the premises in a state of cleanliness.’”
The decongestion exercise will be done in phases with the active collaboration of the Ghana police service.
The focus areas for the decongestion exercise are, the Central
Business District (CBD), Kaneshie market area, N1 Highway, (the
Mallam-Achimota stretch), Darkuman -Kokompe, Odorkor- Kwashieman road,
Nima Highway, Agbogbloshie, Kwame Nkrumah interchange and its environs.
The AMA further warned that traders plying their trade along the
Barnes road and the Kwame Nkrumah avenue from old Kingsway to NIB to
vacate those areas with immediate effect “while all others are being
reminded to go behind the ‘red line’ as it was before.”
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