Hawkers in Accra given two-week ultimatum to move into markets | Citi Newsroom

many markets within the greater aqua region such as makola kantamantung kaneshi agbogloshi and okanshi among others have become congested largely due to the fact that some traders have taken over the streets close to these markets usually causing both human and vehicular traffic according to the greater aquarium minister henry corte traders and hawkers on the streets will be relocated to the main markets to ensure order and me [Music] must be applied the greater crown market women express their willingness to cooperate with the minister because of the street market nobody wants to come into the market to buy and they have turned the markets into an oc they come in the morning very early to collect their goods send them outside sell when they finish in the evening then they bring their goals back to come and put it in the market please the market is for trading it's not at hosting so we will support him we are with him we will make sure that whatever is prepared to do will work that two weeks notice is for announcement so with the advance going around with the assemblyman mess and that this is i think it will be okay already they know that trading outside the market is not allowed so it's not a new thing they know usually when it is coming to smash time then they allow them to sit because they will be shouting if you suck us we will vote if you suck at we won't vote now they are finished voting please they should go to the markets what i'm really afraid of is those who sit in the center of the streets the minister further embarked on an inspection of construction works ongoing at the arakan office's mess at burma camp and a denton we've gone to democratum where we've seen that out of 13 kilometers contract awarded the contractor has done close to about 12 something kilometers and we you we drove on it you saw it very appreciable except that there were a few issues there that i've observed and i raised it the contract came with a construction of drains by the asphalt which has not been done i have pointed it out to them again we are here as you can see uh contractor was awarded a contract in 2019 uh he's supposed to have done 4.6 kilometers it's over a year he's already done 500 kilometers i'll be monitoring if by the time we get to the end of the 24 months it's not able to do it we have to advise the engineers to use the options available to them

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Published: Sat Apr 03 2021