{"id":249438,"date":"2026-11-09T02:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-ama-gives-traders-48-hours-to-vacate-bus-stops\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T02:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T00:00:07","slug":"ghana-ama-gives-traders-48-hours-to-vacate-bus-stops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-ama-gives-traders-48-hours-to-vacate-bus-stops\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: AMA Gives Traders 48 Hours to Vacate Bus Stops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has given traders occupying unauthorised bus stops in the city 48 hours to vacate the areas or face enforcement action as part of efforts to restore order and ease traffic congestion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Assembly says the occupation of designated bus stops by traders undermines their intended purpose, obstructs the movement of vehicles and passengers, and creates unnecessary traffic congestion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The Public Affairs Officer of the AMA, Mr Gilbert Nii Ankrah, said in an interview&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611060648.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has given traders occupying unauthorised bus stops in the city 48 hours to vacate the areas or face enforcement action as part of efforts to restore order and ease traffic congestion. The Assembly says the occupation of designated bus stops by traders undermines their intended purpose, obstructs the movement of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":249439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,15321,3011,4508,4509,9088,257,254,9646,8583,8508],"class_list":["post-249438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ama","tag-bus","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-hours","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stops","tag-traders","tag-vacate"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}