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Some of the traders displaying their produce on the pavement<\/strong><\/p>\n IN SPITE of the incessant calls by the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) on all traders at the Takoradi Market Circle to move to a new market, some of the traders continue to operate around the old market.<\/p>\n The STMA initiated a move to close down the Takoradi main market to all forms of trading activities to pave way for the redevelopment of the old market.<\/p>\n The over 90-year-old market is being redeveloped in fulfilment of a promise made by government.<\/p>\n The relocation of the traders to the new market allowed the contractor to commence the redevelopment works.<\/p>\n However, when DAILY GUIDE<\/em><\/strong> visited the Takoradi Market Circle yesterday, some market women and other traders were still trading around the old market.<\/p>\n All the streets around the old market and walkways were taken over by traders, making human and vehicular movements difficult.<\/p>\n Such recalcitrance by the traders is causing nuisance around the redevelopment site.<\/p>\n Speaking to DAILY GUIDE<\/em><\/strong> in separate interviews, some of the traders asserted that they have not been given shops in the new market so they have no option than to sell on the walkways.<\/p>\n Some of them also said they make more money by selling around the old market than doing business inside the new market.<\/p>\n PRO<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Public Relations Officer of the STMA, John Laste, insists that the traders were not being honest.<\/p>\n He maintained that a good number of the traders who sell on the walkways are refusing to sell in their allocated shops.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cAlmost everyone has been given a shop or a shed inside the main areas. But what I have observed is that most of them have moved from their sheds and shops and have come onto the roads to trade.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued, \u201cSome of the traders were arrested and made to pay a fine. However, they continue to sell at the unauthorised places\u201d.<\/p>\n He warned that traders who have come onto the road and walkways to trade even though they have been allocated shops at the makeshift market will have their shops re-allocated to other people.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n FROM Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Some of the traders displaying their produce on the pavement IN SPITE of the incessant calls by the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) on all traders at the Takoradi Market Circle to move to a new market, some of the traders continue to operate around the old market. The STMA initiated a move to close […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1117084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[3972,2789,4813,4181],"class_list":{"0":"post-1117079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-refuse","9":"tag-relocate","10":"tag-takoradi","11":"tag-traders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}