By: tntnewspapergh.com
Mr. Patrick Kwame Frimpong, the Presiding Member (PM) for the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), has stated emphatically that the Assembly has not increased its daily market tolls or fees for traders as it is being speculated.
Besides, he has rejected the propaganda that the Assembly is embarking on decongestion exercise after the 2024 general election.
Mr.Patrick Kwame Frimpong,KMA Presiding Member (PM)
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“It must be stated that KMA city guards have the daily responsibility to ensure free flow of traffic; hence, they need to ensure that pedestrian walkways and unapproved areas for trading, loading and offloading are free from congestion.
“We have realised that after the general election, Christmas and New Year periods, some traders decided to take advantage to trade on walkways, while drivers also decided to take over unapproved areas for loading and offloading. The city guards can’t look on, and they need to ensure that sanity prevails and that is not general decongestion exercise,” he explained.
The clarification of Mr. Frimpong, who is the elected Assembly member for the Krofrom East Electoral Area and the Dean of Ashanti Regional Association of PMs, follows the claims by Lawyer Abass Nurudeen, Ashanti Regional NDC Communication Officer, and the subsequent hullabaloo about the fake information.
The KMA PM said he had received a lot of calls from several media houses and other stakeholders over the false claims that the Assembly has increased its daily market tolls and has also embarked on decongestion exercise to give the current government a bad name.
He recalled that from 2014 to 2023, KMA daily market toll for traders was GH¢1 and during the 2023 October fee fixing for 2024, it was increased to GH¢2.
He added that during the 2024 fee fixing, the Assembly didn’t increase daily fees for traders but only adjusted that of transport operators which took effect in 2025.
He also explained that before their last upward adjustment, the other adjoining municipal assemblies within Greater Kumasi were already collecting GH¢2.
He said the fee fixing for trotro as approved and gazetted in October 2024 was increased from GH¢3 to GH¢4, while that of bus was increased from GH¢4 to GH¢5.
He said since the implementation of the fee in 2025, both trotro and bus drivers are paying without complaining because, comparatively, KMA is collecting moderate daily market tolls for traders and transport operators.
Secondly, the Assembly didn’t make any decision about decongestion exercise during the meeting.
He, therefore, called on political actors to seek clarification from proper quarters before creating uniformed and wrong impression to the public.
