Traders Evacuation: I Won’t Lash Anyone; Kumasi Mayor Retracts
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly Chief Executive, Richard Ofori Agyemang Boadi, has abandoned plans to whip traders who defy eviction ultimatum at the Kumasi Central Business District.
The KMA boss, having succumbed to a nationwide backlash over his plan to lash recalcitrant traders, says he will use legal processes.
“I won’t lash anyone. I will take them to court,” he said in an interview with Adom TV as he expressed disappointment with the media narrative around his quest to restore Kumasi to its former glory.
“I would have preferred media discussion to encourage the traders to heed the directive to leave.”
“I won’t lash them but just as you are saying, I will hand them over to the police to be prosecuted and when they return to the roads, we will repeat the same action. But when you see filth swallowing up Kumasi, remember that you didn’t help me to deal with it.”
He reiterated that his plan was well-intentioned and not aimed at manhandling traders.
“I am from here. I am an Asante and I have no intention to manhandle my fellows but I’m determined to restore sanity and proper sanitary conditions to attract investments so that the youth will get employment. The spate of the filth is such that if aggressive measures are not used and we fall on the status quo where we go to court, the filth will remain.”
Source: opemsuo.com/Hajara Fuseini
