Authorities of the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly Monday morning (March 28, 2022) carried out a decongestion exercise within the Central Business Area of the northern regional capital.
This is in preparation ahead of the commissioning of the Tamale interchange project on Tuesday.
The assembly evacuated vendors and hawkers along the stretch of the interchange to pave way for the commissioning ceremony.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is expected in Tamale on Tuesday (March 29, 2022) to formally open the overpass to ease regular vehicular congestion within the central business area and further enable inter-urban and national vehicular traffic flow in the northern region.
The Chief Executive Officer of Tamale, Hon Sule Salifu, who led the taskforce of the assembly for the exercise thanked the Chiefs of Tamale for the support given to the government during the construction period of the project.
He further implored the traditional leaders to support the assembly to sustain the decongestion exercise in order to keep the metropolis clean and sanitize.
“We cannot use and continue to use containers to decorate the city of Tamale and that is why we’re calling on the Chiefs to stand firm behind the assembly and government to ensure that the beautification exercise that His Excellency and his given to Tamale is sustained” he said.
The Mayor indicated the Ghana Police Service and the taskforce have been given instructions to arrest offenders for prosecution as a measure taken to serve as deterrent to others.
Sule Salifu said the investment that has gone into the construction of the interchange is huge and it is only proper that the needed benefit is driven out of it and entreated the traders to desist from selling around the interchange.
“…Once again, Mr. President, we say very big thanks to you and may God bless us all” he prayed.
Meanwhile, the Tamale Metropolitan Chief Executive has also called on the investor community and development partners to support the government’s agenda of development to continue to give a facelift to the city.
