The Weekend Statesman reports in a lead a story that traders and hawkers have taken over the Kejetia road project site in Kumasi and are refusing to vacate the area, in spite of repeated pleas by the contractor on the job.

The story says that the refusal of the traders and hawkers to move from the site and give the contractor unhindered access, stems from the fact that the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) collects tolls from them everyday.

"Once the KMA does not see anything wrong with what we are doing here and continues to take money from us, we will not leave from here today r tomorrow", the Weekend Statesman quotes Abena Serwaa, a fishmonger as saying.

The paper says that the presence of the traders and hawkers has greatly hampered progress of work at the site and the city authorities have not heeded pleas from the contractor to relocate them.

The story says that the traders, majority of them wearing identity cards of the Veranda Boys and Girls Club on their chests, are not eager to move out of the site since the Kejetia area is the first point of call for many commuters.