Nana Baffour Owusu Amankwatia VI, Bantemahene, has tasked the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly To decongest Kumasi.
When we decongest, it helps to restructure the town for the free movement of cars and humans alike. Kumasi has become overpopulated with unauthorised structures. The Bantemahene has called on the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly to take immediate action.
Baffour Owusu Amankwatia VI blames the KMA for the rampant mounting of kiosks and containers and allowing congestion at the city centre which he says is turning the once flourishing Garden city into a village.
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Delivering his New Year message with Luv FM’s Erastus Asare Donkor, Baffour Owusu Amankwatia VI cited that the city has become ungovernable, with perpetrators going unpunished.
Kumasi is the second largest city in Ghana with a population of 3,630,000 as of the end of 2022. The Garden City has lost its green nature to dirt.
According to the Chief, people with political authority have ignored calls for the development of the city. Kumasi has become underdeveloped due to uncompleted government projects and congestion.
I had the opportunity to put this issue before the Regional Minister when he addressed the regional house. We have nobody to blame other than the KMA and its assembly members. We know assembly members take money from these people to put up these structures.
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Pavements inhabited by people doing business. It has made Kumasi look like a village. Some laws must be adhered to. But once they (traders) get the authorization from the assembly and authorities, they do not care about the authority of Nananom.
Decongestion issues in Kumasi are serious to the extent that people are selling tomatoes in front of Komfo Anokye hospital. We want a KMA that would be able to decongest the city. Nananom do not have political power. The political power is with the KMA. We have had a meeting with them and came up with the issue of filth and the issue of trying to put Kumasi in order. In 2023, if they fail to do it, Nananom will take it upon ourselves to make sure Kumasi is clean.
There are projects currently being done by Nananom and not the KMA. We are trying to privatize the road in front of Manhyia. If we keep waiting for the government, things are not going to happen. People say Kumasi is the second city, however in terms of development, Kumasi is 50 years behind Accra, which is not acceptable. Kumasi is turning into a village. He said.
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