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President directs AMA to call Tema
station traders back for Christmas
Accra, Dec 4, Ghanadot/GNA- President John Agyekum Kufuor
has directed the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to allow
traders to sell at the Tema Station in Accra until Christmas
was over.
The directive was in response to various appeals made by the
traders to the President to intervene on their behalf after
a decongestion exercise by the AMA in October, Mr Stanley
Nii Adjiri Blankson, AMA Chief executive announced at a
meeting with the traders in Accra on Tuesday.
Mr. Adjiri Blankson advised the traders to mount standard
tables and to co-operate with the Assembly by not invading
the lorry parks and keeping the market clean.
He also urged the traders to be watchdogs against those
traders who use the market as homes and engaged in all sorts
of unscrupulous activities.
The AMA Boss further expressed concern over the abandonment
of the hawkers market at Odawna, saying, " hawkers should
see the hawkers market as a big investment by the AMA since
apart from China, Ghana is the only country that has this
facility.
Mr Adjiri Blankson announced the reintroduction of the
Sunday market in the capital to boost trading activities,
adding that the initiative would soon be conducted on pilot
basis.
GNA
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