If You Cannot Withstand Economic Hardship, Sell Cocaine – Minister Tells Traders

Simon Osei Mensah

Simon Osei Mensah, a Ghanaian minister has admonished petty traders in the Kumasi metropolis to consider dealing him cocaine in other to survive the hard economic hardship in the country.

Citinewsroom reports that he said that traders should not cover up their act of salling their wares in prohibited locations should rethink their action because their are repercussion for their actions.

“When we start enforcing the laws, people will be complaining of hardship. If there is hardship, then I will ask that you stop the business and go and sell cocaine for a living,” he added.

The minister lamented the refusal of the traders to use the designated market to do their businesses instead they use the footbridge and pedestrian walkways to sell their wares.

According to him, some traders have been defying orders by city authorities in the name of their affiliation to the ruling party.

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, recently asked traders to vacate unauthorized places but to sell their wares at designated market places, however, most of the traders defied the order of the authorities.

Mr Osei Mensah, speaking at an event to re-launch of Keep Kumasi Clean and Green project warned that city authorities would forcefully eject petty traders who sell on pavements at the Suame roundabout and the footbridge at the Central Business District as well as other unauthorised locations.

The minister insisted that the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Government would not allow people who claim they are sympathizer and supporters of the party to break the law.

he insisted that the pavements and the footbridges meant for commuters and not for trading purposes.