Hawkers asked to vote for NPP

The chairman of the Coalition of Street Traders Association Desmond Donkor has defended his call on members of his association to vote for the NPP candidate in next Tuesday?s Odododiodio Constituency bye-election.

In the run up to the polls hawkers who were kept off the streets of the capital have retruned under the watchful eyes of guards from the Accra Metropolitan Assembly- AMA.

Mr Donkor believes the trader?s interest will be best served if they voted an NPP candidate into power.

Although some hawkers protested the proposal by walking out of the traders welfare meeting on Tuesday, Mr Donkor told Joy News he saw nothing wrong with his call.

? This is the government of the day, if the government and the AMA is supposed to get a place for traders to do their business, it is not somebody who is in opposition.

The opposition cannot do anything for traders as compared to when the NDC was in power. NDC was trying to get a place for traders and they did at Agbogbloshie and when you come to Metropol lane, they closed the road for traders to do their business.

We were talking in behalf of the NDC because the NDC was in power, you so when another government comes into power we have to support that government so that we can get a place to do our business.

We only want a place to do our business peacefully. So we are pleading with those who have got votes there to vote for the NPP candidate, that is all we are saying,? he said.

Mr Donkor told Joy News voting for an opposition would not augur well for the traders.