{"id":462300,"date":"2018-02-07T14:41:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T14:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/07\/traders-back-after-amas-decongestion-exercise\/"},"modified":"2018-02-07T14:41:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T14:41:39","slug":"traders-back-after-amas-decongestion-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/07\/traders-back-after-amas-decongestion-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Traders back after AMA\u2019s decongestion exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/62517732.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ama Decongestion1\" title=\"Ama Decongestion1\" width=\"295\" height=\"179\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Traders were spotted doing brisk business near the Interchange<\/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=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1518014499_570_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Some traders have returned to pavements around the Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange barely a month after the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) carried out a demolition exercise along some major pavements in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>Despite AMA\u2019s commitment to ensure that traders do not return to the pavements, their effort seems to be going down the drain as traders take over the pavements again.<\/p>\n<p>Some traders were spotted doing brisk business near the Interchange with no AMA officer in sight to get them off.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, January 8, several illegally mounted structures were pulled down by the Assembly at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange.<\/p>\n<p>Pavements were cleared of hawkers and traders in a bid to make Accra the cleanest city in Africa, as envisaged by the president.<\/p>\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>Traders were spotted doing brisk business near the Interchange Some traders have returned to pavements around the Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange barely a month after the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) carried out a demolition exercise along some major pavements in Accra. Despite AMA\u2019s commitment to ensure that traders do not return to the pavements, their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":462301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462300","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\/462300","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=462300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}