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The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) said it had never failed in its efforts to decongest the central business district (CBD) of the metropolis.
According to the Assembly's Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mr. Godwin Okumah-Nyame, although the meeting has encountered difficulties in decongesting the downtown core, this should not be interpreted as a failure. .
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He said the badembly had, at all times, given a human face to its activities to clean up the city center.
"For example, during the Christmas holidays, we accepted the merchants' request to allow them to make sales," he said.
A similar request was granted during the observation of the last funerary rites of Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem, who died in Asantehemaa.
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Mr. Okumah-Nyame stated that, at the completion of the first phase of the Kejetia / Central Market Rehabilitation Project, projects were underway to reopen roads closed to traffic.
He badured shopkeepers and all residents that Metropolitan Executive Director Osei Assibey Antwi and the entire badembly were working tirelessly to bring the best to Kumasi and that the downtown area would soon be cleaned up.
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Regional Minister's Briefing
At the same time, Ashanti Regional Minister Simon Osei-Mensah briefed journalists in Kumasi on plans to reopen Kejetia's closed roads.
As part of the roadmap for the official opening of roads to traffic, the KMA has embarked on education and public awareness in order to inform traders / peddlers that none of them would be allowed to trade on sidewalks and streets nor at the airport. any open space around the project site.
In addition, the KMA told them to set up in the satellite markets inside and outside the metropolis, including the racetrack, the market Nana Afia Kobi, Bohyen markets, Adumanu, Abrepo, Atonsu , Old Tafo and Bantama.
Mr. Osei-Mensah said the roads would be open strictly to traffic and not to traders.
He added that the opening of the roads would not mark the official opening of the Kejetia project.
Metsec
He added that the Metropolitan Security Council (METSEC), composed of various security services, went to the CBD on Wednesday, January 23, 2019 to closely observe the situation on the ground, as well as to inform and educate the traders on the need to set up on the various satellite markets of Kumasi to open the way to the opening of the roads surrounding the Kejetia redevelopment project.
"The Transport Department and the Assembly Transportation Subcommittee also met with the leaders of the various commercial transport unions to raise awareness of the measures put in place for the successful opening of the roads in order to reduce traffic in the city, especially the CBD, "he said.
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