The Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr, has questioned the effectiveness of the selection process for Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs).
This follows a threat made by Richard Ofori Agyemang Boadi, the Chief Executive Officer of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), to unleash the assembly's guards on vendors operating on sidewalks in the city's central commercial area.
He outlined a new approach, which he described as a blend of democratic ideals and military-style enforcement to deter street vending. "I have my own military-democratic style which I will be implementing.
When we say leave the space and you don't leave, and I get there and you're still there with my boys - right there and then, we will beat you.
