{"id":461023,"date":"2018-02-03T04:21:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T04:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/03\/kma-has-not-failed-in-decongesting-kumasi-mayor\/"},"modified":"2018-02-03T04:21:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T04:21:49","slug":"kma-has-not-failed-in-decongesting-kumasi-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/03\/kma-has-not-failed-in-decongesting-kumasi-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"KMA has not failed in decongesting Kumasi &#8211; Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Saturday,  3 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>mynewsgh.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-03<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/23082059.295.jpg\" alt=\"Osei Assibeyantwi\" title=\"Osei Assibeyantwi\" width=\"295\" height=\"160\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Osei Assibey Antwi \u2013 KMA Mayor<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1517631709_545_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not failed\u2026.we have succeeded\u201d, 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>He described the Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE)  Osei Assibey-Antwi as a \u201dcomplete failure\u201d calling for his head.<\/p>\n<p>But speaking to mynewsgh.com\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNana 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\u201d, the Mayor fumed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should know there is no way they could come back and ply their businesses on the streets. ..that will be illegal\u201d, Hon. Osei Assibey Antwi pointed to the traders.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Mayor, the Assembly will arrest and prosecute offenders who may go contrary to the KMA\u2019s bye-laws to sell on pavements and unauthorized places.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 32 updated by: 32 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Saturday, 3 February 2018 Source: mynewsgh.com 2018-02-03 Osei Assibey Antwi \u2013 KMA Mayor 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":461024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}