Osei Assibey Antwi
Mayor of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Osei Assibey Antwi has diffused claims that the Assembly has failed in its attempts to relocate traders from selling on pavements and other unauthorized areas to the main market for which reason he must be sacked.
“We have not failed….we have succeeded”, he stated in an exclusive interview with mynewsgh.com accusing the leadership of Petty Traders Association in the metropolis of trying to foil the exercise.
Chairman of the Kumasi Petty Traders Association, Nana Kwasi Prempeh at a press conference accused city managers of doing little to ensure the city is decongested as promised last year.
He described the Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) Osei Assibey-Antwi as a ”complete failure” calling for his head.
But speaking to mynewsgh.com’s Ashanti Regional Correspondent Kwabena Danso-Dapaah, Hon. Osei Assibey Antwi rather accused the chairman of the Petty Traders Association, Nana Kwasi Prempeh of inciting their members against authorities which have informed the decision for some of them to return to the streets.
“Nana Akwasi Prempeh is rather a failure and disappointing. Upon all the lengthy discussions and arrangements for traders he is unable to talk to his members who now want to come back and sell on streets”, the Mayor fumed.
“They should know there is no way they could come back and ply their businesses on the streets. ..that will be illegal”, Hon. Osei Assibey Antwi pointed to the traders.
According to the Mayor, the Assembly will arrest and prosecute offenders who may go contrary to the KMA’s bye-laws to sell on pavements and unauthorized places.
