In a bid to decongest Cape Coast, the Central Region capital, the metropolitan assembly has inaugurated a taskforce made up of ten personnel drawn from the Ghana Police Service, Metropolitan Works Department and Metropolitan Guards do with the situation.

The Taskforce that has been powered to ensure that traders, especially those in the central business district, who have stalls/stores within the refurbished Kotokuraba and Abura Markets compulsorily occupy.

 The taskforce is expected to start operations on  March 26. 2018.

According to the MCE for Cape Coast, Ernest Arthur, the aim of the exercise is not only to decongest the ancient capital but also make sure sanitary measures are observed in the metropolis to reduce the potential of disease outbreak as a result of filth.

“It has become a common sight for traders to be seen hawking and selling in makeshift structures along the streets within the commercial areas of the city causing vehicular traffic. Such is not the Cape Coast we want. We want a Cape Coast that does its things in an orderly manner,” he explained.

At the Kotokuraba market, many traders can be seen hawking on the streets and around the market with the excuse that they were not allocated spaces at the new market even though investigations reveal that such people have been allocated stalls.

The Metropolitan Chief Executive, Ernest Arthur, in an interaction with Joy News assured such traders who do not have spaces to sell that the Assembly would do everything within its power to provide them with one.

Ernest Arthur appealed to the traders to cooperate with the taskforce in making the process a success.

The Central Regional Minister, Kwamena Duncan, who graced the inauguration cautioned the taskforce against corruption and asked them to work diligently attaching some level of ‘human face’ to the operations.

He pledged the support of the Regional Coordinating Council towards the exercise.

Present at the inauguration were Mr Sampson Amoako Kwarteng, the Coordinating Director, Madam Dorcas Hutchful, Deputy Coordinating Director and Mr Richmond Yeboah, the Investments Coordinator and the Public Relations Officer.