Cargo drivers who ply their trade at Dunkirk near Asafo in the Kumasi metropolis have warned the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) to stay off their station in their ongoing decongestion of the central business district (CBD).
According to the visibly angry drivers, they have been using that piece of land as their lorry station since 2008 and would therefore, not be fair on the part of the KMA to eject them only to assign the same place to commercial drivers who have been operating at the Roman Hill.
Spokesperson of the drivers, Mr Kofi Nketia, speaking to journalists, noted that they had received information to the effect that the KMA that they should relocate to the Abinkyi market or be forcefully ejected by a task force.
The cargo drivers, he said, were prepared for the outcome in their upcoming clash with the task force, making it clear that they have no intention of leaving the place.
They further added that it was sad that “…anytime NPP comes to power, they try to eject us from this place but they fail.”
Mr Nketia, who is the Constituency Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Subin constituency, said such actions by leaders of his party have always created problems for them during elections.
He alleged that someone had taken a bribe from people at the Kumasi Central Market and was trying hard to get the cargo drivers ejected to pave way for drivers from the Roman Hill.
Meanwhile, the KMA has also explained that due to the upcoming funeral of the late Asantehemaa and the numerous guests expected to throng the city, there needed to be free-flow of traffic and cleanliness everywhere, hence their directive to the cargo drivers to leave the road where they occupy.
As at press time yesterday checks by Today showed that though the drivers had left the road and allowed free-flow of traffic in that area, there was no sign of them leaving the place entirely.
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