Suame, KATH roundabout traders want extension of vacation period

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 Traders who have occupied the Suame and Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital roundabout in the Kumasi Metropolis have appealed to the Ashanti Regional Minister and the city authorities to consider and extend the deadline given to them to vacate the places.

Their call comes on the back of an order given by the Ashanti Regional Minister, Hon. Simon Osei Mensah that the petty traders plying the two roundabout should leave there by 5th November next month.

A statement issued by Hon. Simon Osei Mensah orders the traders to relocate themselves to the Afia Kobi Market at Abinkyi, Adumanu market and other remote places, as the roundabouts they are plying are not safe for their stay.

However, reacting to the command, some of the traders at the Suame roundabout in an interview appealed to the Minister to give them enough time to prepare themselves, as the order has come to them impromptu.

They said the minister should allow them to spend the Christmas season there and embark on the operation next year, as they risk loosing their business if they are forced out of the place.

According to them, though they are not against the minister's decision, they are not comfortable with where they are to be relocated to, as they claimed those areas, (Abinkyi, Adumanu and other remote areas) are not conducive for their activities.

They therefore called on the city authorities to provide them a conducive environment to relocate to.

 Meanwhile, traders at the Abinkyi Market have reechoed their call on the Kumasi City authorities to force traders who have taken to the streets and pavements in the metropolis to relocate themselves to the market or join them on the streets.
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According to them, their businesses are collapsing, as their customers prefer buying from traders on the streets and pavements than walking a long distance to the Abinkyi market to trade with them.

 Most of the traders who were relocated from the Kejetia market to the Afia Kobi market at Abinkyi, a suburb of Kumasi have abandoned their stalls, shops and tables and have taken to the streets with their trade, creating congestion in the central business district, as traders, drivers and pedestrians compete for space.

 The traders have on several occasions called on the KMA to evacuate street hawkers and petty traders to fill up the market but nothing has been done about it so far.

 But the Ashanti Regional Minister, Hon. Simon Osei Mensah as part of measures to ensure the impeccable clean of the Kumasi Metropolis have pledged to enforce all petty traders on streets to the market.

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