The Tema Metropolitan Assembly has resolved to pull down kiosks, containers and other structures that are obstructing the free movement of vehicles and persons in the Central Business District.
The exercise is to clear hawkers off the streets and pavements in the metropolis to make way for the second phase of the Tema restoration agenda.
When GBC News visited the Tema Central Business area with the Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive, Felix Mensah Nii Annang-La and all the departmental heads of the Assembly, it found that in spite of the notification earlier served, some traders were unperturbed and had displayed their wares along the road.
Nii Annang-La expressed grave concern about the way traders and hawkers loiter in and around the Tema Central business area, adding that, the Assembly will from next week start a demolition exercise in the market areas.
On the issue of revenue collection from traders who occupy the streets and pavements, Nii Annang-La said the collection does not mean that the Assembly endorses hawking. He indicated that the money collected augments the Assembly’s treasury while part is used in funding the payment of refuse disposal.