Traders issue ultimatum to KMA; vow to return to the streets if…

Kejetia Petty Traders Association at the Racecourse market have threatened to go back to the roadside if the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly fails to implement a relocation plan that was agreed on. They also accused the assembly of causing financial loss to the state claiming its decongestion exercise was a failure. The aggrieved traders say the Kumasi mayor, Osei Assibey Antwi has failed to enforce an agreement to relocate the transport operators together with the traders to the Racecourse. Chairman of the Petty Traders Association, Mr Akwasi Prempeh told the media on Wednesday, January 24, 2018 that the KMA, traders and transport operators together with some chiefs in Kumasi held a meeting where the relocation agreement was reached by the parties. “We cannot understand why the KMA who has allotted spaces to the transport operators at the Racecourse would turn around and issue stickers to these same drivers to load by the roadside,” he wondered. He also bemoaned that fact that the Mbrom residential area has been turned into a market where traders and drivers operate at the full glare of the KMA task force mandated to decongest the city. For him, the KMA’s approach towards the relocation can best be described as “lackadaisical, unwilling and uncommitted”. “We are giving the entire city authorities one week ultimatum to ensure that all traders are back to the Racecourse or risk seeing us back on streets” By Antwi Boasiako |Akoma FM|3news.com]]>