Mayor of Accra, Michael Allotey, says the solution to the city's persistent street trading problem lies in empowering the very people often blamed for it - the market women.
According to him, past Mayors failed because they did not work directly with the traders, and he is changing that. "I promise one thing, I'm going to work with a market woman," the Mayor said on PM Express on Tuesday night. "You see, today during the decongestion exercise, the market women understood that we have to fix this.
It is a problem that most of the time, the Mayors don't deal with the market women directly.
But this time, I'm dealing with them." He believes the market women hold the key to lasting order in the city. "They know the problem, because they are in there, and they know how to go about it.
