The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has put in measures to resolve the impasse between them and the Ghana Electrical Dealers Association.
This comes after stalls of the latter at Opera Square were demolished which the AMA denied responsibility for.
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Welfare Officer of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA), Benjamin Yeboah has disclosed that the AMA has however set up a committee to redevelop Opera Square for the affected electrical dealers.
“We met at the offices of the AMA yesterday and had a discussion on the matter. We concluded that a committee made up of some leadership of GUTA, AMA and the Electrical Dealers Association should be set up to redevelop Opera Square”.
According to him, members of the Association are yet to be briefed on the decision as the meeting ended late yesterday. He believes traders will agree to the redevelopment plan. “Since they know we are working for their welfare, they will understand us and we will make sure they are not moved to a different location”, he stated.
Speaking to Raymond Nyamador, host of the Happy Morning Show aired on e.TV Ghana and Happy FM, Benjamin shared that consulting traders on the way forward is the priority of the committee.
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“We will consult traders on the kind of designs they want the stalls to be in. These manageable stalls will house them and put food on their tables”, he noted.
On his authority, the committee’s focus is not on who destroyed the stores but on the resettlement of its people.
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Over 200 members of the Ghana Electrical Dealers Association had their stalls demolished at Opera Square in Accra’s Central Business District earlier this week.
The traders accused the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) of being behind the act.
By: Joel Sanco
