The Larger Accra Regional Coordinating Council (GARCC) has strongly debunked stories that it had licensed the usage of the Kanda Expressway and different main roads within the capital for the sale of livestock.
In a rejoinder issued on Friday, Might 29, 2026, the Larger Accra Regional Minister, Linda Obenewah Akweri Okuru, directed media homes to appropriate the misunderstanding created by broadcasts depicting such data.
The Council expressed deep concern over the publication and clarified that neither GARCC nor the Regional Minister has granted any type of permission to any particular person, group or entity to interact within the industrial sale of animals on street medians or highways inside Accra Metropolis.
Clarifying the details about latest administrative actions, GARCC stated that in reality, reasonably than supporting unlawful avenue markets, it was actively working to dismantle them.
After noticing a rise within the show and sale of livestock by merchants alongside Kanda Freeway and varied street median strips, the council stated it took instant regulatory motion to handle the environmental and safety challenges.
GARCC stated officers initiated a stakeholder engagement assembly, which was subsequently convened by regional ministers.
The emergency assembly introduced collectively officers of Ayawaso East Municipal Council, conventional leaders of the affected enclaves, native safety officers and livestock operators themselves to search out a direct answer to the issue.
Throughout deliberations, critical considerations had been raised by parliament and conventional authorities concerning the important security implications of permitting the commerce of cattle, goats and sheep on busy highways.
Technical chiefs warned that the deal poses a direct danger to motorists, pedestrians and the animals themselves touring at excessive speeds, in addition to critical detrimental impacts on the circulate of city visitors and the orderly use of the capital’s public areas.
Because of this, the Metropolis Council introduced that it has issued a direct and uncompromising order to the operators, directing them to right away take away livestock from the affected freeway places and to relocate all buying and selling actions to extra appropriate designated market areas exterior of main transport arteries.
The Minister stated subsequent media stories suggesting that the Council had permitted the apply had been extraordinarily disappointing and stunning, particularly on condition that the Council had been on the forefront of stopping the apply.
The Regional Coordinating Council concluded its assertion by assuring the residents of the Accra metropolitan space of its unwavering dedication to public security, environmental well being and orderly administration of public areas throughout the capital.
