Some demolished structures
The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) yesterday embarked on the second phase of the extensive and intensive decongestion and demolition exercise to ensure sanity on the streets.
A joint military, police and metropolitan guards, numbering about 110, embarked on the exercise, which started at about 6:00 am.
It was carried out in some selected locations in the central business district of Takoradi and Kwesimintsim, which also saw the demolition of unauthorized structures along other selected streets.
The areas of concentration were Collins Avenue, Ahanta road, old Accra station and around the Super Star Hotel.
A Kwesimintsim, traders using the township road and pavements as market places were affected by the exercise.
The exercise has paved way for smooth movement of human beings and vehicles in the twin-city.
The mayor of STMA, Anthony Kobina Kurentsir Sam, pledged to work closely with the security agencies to maintain 24-hour security at the market to help sustain the decongestion exercise.
According to him, the first phase of the exercise saw the relocation of buses which ply the northern parts of the region as well as some lorry parks at unauthorized locations, to the reconstructed lorry park at the Apremdo market.
“Similar decongestion and demolishing exercise would be carried out in all five sub-metros of the STMA.
“We intend to intensively sustain the exercise as it had been done with the relocation of the unauthorized lorry terminals,” Kurentsir Sam indicated.
He was worried about the attitudes of some truck pushers who park anyhow without recourse to other road users and even residents and called on such people to desist from indiscriminately parking around the central business district.
The assembly, according to him, would be carrying out a major desilting exercise to rid the gutters and drains of filth.
Mr K.K. Sam called on all stakeholders in the STMA to effectively collaborate in projecting the twin-city as one of the cleanest, most beautiful and most habitable in Ghana.
From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi