A week after the Greater Accra Regional Minister and the Regional Coordinating Council launched ‘Operation Clean your Frontage,’ where some structures belonging to petty traders selling along the streets and pavements of Accra were destroyed and sacked, those at Kwame Nkrumah Circle are back to the streets again.
The exercise which attracted national attention and applauded by some health experts in the country as one of the massive initiatives to make Accra the cleanest city in Africa has been challenged.
As at Tuesday, February 8, 2022, traders sacked from selling along the pavements at the Central Ayawaso (Tip-Toe Lane) and Okaikwei South (Vodafone Lane) parts of Kwame Nkrumah Circle are back to the streets to sell.
One of the observations by the Republic Press at these centers are that, there were no taskforce or the presence of the security to deter the traders from reoccupying the pavements as promised by the minister.
It would be recorded that Regional Minister said the initiative will bring employment to over 3,500 people who are mainly recruited taskforce to help ensure enforcement.
These traders who are mainly selling used-second-hand mobile phones and phone accessories have flooded the pavements with their products to the extent that movement become very difficult in the area.
But ironically, traders at the Korle Klottey part of Nkrumah Circle (Obra Spot and in front of Ghana Commercial Bank Lane through to VIP Bus Terminal) were seen obeying the directives as the pavement are empty making movements very easy.
