AMA and Hawkers agree on Redline Policy

The management of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), has met with leadership of the various hawker groups in the metropolis and had agreed on implementing the “redline policy.”    

The AMA initiated the “redline policy” last year to streamline the activities of hawkers which had impeded the movements of pedestrians and motorists and posed as a major challenge to the activities of the assembly.
    

A statement signed by Numo Blafo III, the Head of the Public Affairs Department of the AMA and copied to the Ghana News Agency expressed the hope that the hawkers would comport themselves in the implementation of the policy.    

It urged the hawkers to report any grievance to the assembly for amicable resolution.    

The statement, however, warned that notwithstanding the AMA’s willingness to allow the hawkers some space along the streets, their indiscriminate activities violated the AMA Hawkers Bye-Laws of 2011 and Article 117 (Section 1A-F) of the Road Traffic Regulation 2012.

Source: GNA