The Public Relations Officer of the True Drivers Union, Yaw Berimah, has challenged the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to explain why its revenue collectors continue to issue tickets to traders occupying unauthorised spaces while the Assembly prepares to remove them.
He said the practice undermines the AMA’s efforts to clear bus stops and pavements because traders are likely to remain in those locations as long as they are allowed to operate and pay revenue to the Assembly.
“How can the Assembly remove traders from these places when it depends on the money it collects from them? As long as its officials continue to ticket them, the traders will remain there,” he said.
According to Adomonline.com, Berimah questioned whether the Assembly was genuinely committed to enforcing its regulations, suggesting that revenue collected from the traders was helping to boost its Internally Generated Funds (IGF).
He called on the AMA to stop collecting money from traders in unauthorised locations if it intends to evacuate them and restore order at bus stops and on pavements.
Berimah also highlighted the challenges the situation creates for commercial drivers, saying traders often occupy designated loading and offloading points, forcing drivers to stop in the middle of the road to pick up or drop off passengers.
He said drivers who do so risk being arrested by the police, leaving them facing enforcement action even when the designated stopping areas are unavailable.
His comments come amid tensions between transport operators and authorities following the introduction of the Ghana Police Service’s automated traffic enforcement system, TraffiTech-GH, on November 1, 2026.
