The Mayor of the Kumasi Metropolitan Meeting (KMA), Richard Ofori Agyemang Boadi, has issued a agency directive prohibiting merchants from promoting on pavements and roads inside the Central Enterprise District.
Merchants have been given a two-week ultimatum to vacate these areas, with the mayor warning that those that refuse to conform will face extreme repercussions, together with bodily self-discipline.
Mayor Boadi said that typical enforcement measures, reminiscent of confiscating items and making arrests, have confirmed ineffective, necessitating a extra direct method.
I’ve my very own military-democratic type which I will likely be implementing. Once we say depart the house, and also you don’t depart the house, and I get there with my boys, we are going to beat you.
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The mayor issued this warning throughout a press convention on Monday, April 14, 2025, the place he outlined plans for a decongestion train aimed toward clearing merchants from pavements and roadsides.
In the midst of Adum, if I’m alone, you can be fortunate, but when I’m with my ten boys, of their pick-up with their whips, belief me, we are going to beat you. If you happen to don’t need to expertise that form of scenario, do what is correct and lawful.
Emphasising the necessity to keep order in Kumasi, which he known as “Otumfoo’s metropolis” and the “backyard metropolis of West Africa”, Mayor Boadi asserted his readiness to take decisive motion towards resistance.
We’ve got to protect it. If you need the job to be troublesome for me, I’ll let your physique really feel the issue you might be giving to me.
The mayor clarified that he doesn’t anticipate criticism for imposing these measures and urged merchants to stick to the laws voluntarily to keep away from confrontation.
