The Mayor of Accra, Mr. Solomon Ofei Darko, has revealed that plans are underway to beautify the city of Accra this year.

With this, the mayor said, the roads and pavements of the Accra metropolis, which have been turned into a market, would be cleared to welcome this new positive change of beautification.

In an interview with the mayor, he hinted Chronicle that they are going to allow an open market sale of Christmas items on some of the major streets of Accra, which, he said, would be blocked on every Saturday to allow for this business till the end of this year.

Ofei Darko said he would negotiate with the people selling on the major streets and pavements of Accra to be relocated at the end of the exercise.

Asked whether the people would not come back to the streets again to continue transacting their business, Ofei Darko said he would make sure they are relocated to places in the same localities they operate from.

He said a vibrant street carnival would be organised in the city for traders to encourage them to leave the streets and the pavements to free the city from congestion.

The AMA boss later revealed that more labour force is going to be absorbed from the on-going unemployed registration exercise by AMA to be trained to cater for those on the streets, pavements and to check haphazard parking of motorists in order to ensure sanity and reduce police presence in the city.