AMA demolishes illegal structures in "London Market"

Accra, Aug. 21, GNA - The Accra Metropolitan Assembly task force on Thursday ejected squatters from the "London Market" in Accra and demolished structures being used for immoral activities. Mr. Maxwell Gyimah, Director of the Ashiedu Keteke Sub-Metro, told the GNA in an interview that the action was taken because the area had become a den for robbers who attacked people at night. He appealed to people in the community to support the AMA in its quest to ensure that sanity prevailed at the London Market. Dr. Simpson Anim Boateng, Director of Public Health of the AMA in an interview, stressed the need for the assembly members to encourage people in their communities to attach importance to environmental sanitation.

He said conscious efforts were being made by AMA to create public awareness on the effects of filth and anyone who littered the environment would be prosecuted.

Dr. Boateng said it was the responsibility of traders in the market to make sanitation and cleanliness part of their every day activities. Madam Joana Neizer, Queen mother of Charcoal sellers in the London Market, appealed to AMA to consider their plight and relocate them.