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Traders at Novotel hotel area here in Accra are threatening to march naked to the Castle.
Their threat follows a final ejection notice from the Accra Metropolitan Assembly to relocate them to the Odawna shopping mall at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle.
The traders numbering over 2,000 have resisted earlier attempts, saying the market at Odawna is too small to accommodate them all.
On Wednesday, the city authorities met and gave them up to Sunday to relocate or face forceful ejection.
The Public Relations Officer of the AMA James Dorgbetor told Joy News the decision to relocate them was taken after thorough deliberations by a committee.
He said the AMA has repeatedly treated the issue with a human face but has realized that the traders are taking the AMA for granted.
The traders however are vowing to resist the ejection, with some of them telling Joy News, sacking them from the park amounts to conscripting them into prostitution for daily bread and their naked demonstration to the Castle will afford the decision makers to see them naked since that is what they are aiming at.
Play the attached audio for excerpts of the interviews with the traders
Source: Joy News/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana
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