A special taskforce from the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) formed to monitor residents during the partial lockdown has intercepted over 20 women and 10 babies on a truck on Accra High Street.

The team found the women, their children and belongings on Tuesday morning on the truck with registration number GS-4677 17 during routine patrols.

One of the women who was on the truck told Joy News’ JoyNews’ Piesie Nana Yaw Safo they had wanted to leave Accra for Walewale on Saturday following President Akufo-Addo’s announcement of a partial lockdown in Accra.

However, after paying for their tickets, the bus which was supposed to pick them up did not show. They spent the night at the bus terminal.

On Sunday, while they stood stranded at the station at Odawna in Accra, they pleaded with driver of the truck, Fusseini Zibrim who was leaving Accra for Tamale after delivering yam to traders.

Initially, Zibrim refused to pick the stranded women but gave in and allowed them on the truck.

He drove from Accra to Kumasi before they were discovered by some military officers and asked to return to Accra for flouting the lockdown directive.

Head of Public Affairs for the AMA, Gilbert Ankrah says the Assembly is currently cooperating with the police on the way forward.