Story: Vincent Adedze
SOME motor mechanics in the Tamale metropolis have appealed to the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly (TAMA) to relax its byelaws on the demolition of unauthorised structures in the area to enable their businesses to grow to meet demands during the Ghana 2008 tournament scheduled between January 20 - February 10.
According to them, their businesses might fold up if their fitting shops were relocated to another area since their services might no longer be accessible to their customers.
They made the appeal during an interaction with this reporter in Tamale.
The appeal came in the wake of a series of demolition exercises embarked upon by the TAMA last year, as part of its beautification programme.
The metropolis has a good number of fitting shops and mechanics, some of whom have specialised in repairing all kinds of vehicles.
It is worthy to note that vehicular traffic in the metropolis keeps increasing each passing year as many residents are purchasing more modern and sophisticated vehicles.
This, perhaps, has given rise to the increase in demand for the services of mechanics and spare parts hence the establishment of more fitting shops in the metropolis.
Some of the mechanics have started venturing into the spare parts business which they consider to be more lucrative.
The Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Mohammed Amin Adam, reacting told the Daily Graphic that ‘the beautification programme was aimed at making Tamale a clean and beautiful city as part of the strategy to attract tourists and investors as well as prepare towards the Ghana 2008 tournament”.
He called on residents to co-operate with the assembly to help “achieve those noble objectives”.
Mr Adam also reminded companies and business entities in the metropolis of the need to register their entities with the assembly and to pay their Business Operation Fees (BOF), adding that the assembly would not contract such companies to execute projects on its behalf.
He indicated that his outfit was collaborating with the private sector to help establish a plant pool in the metropolis to enable local road construction firms to get the requisite equipment to execute projects effectively.
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