Evicted Traders and artisans around the private residence of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, have said the President has failed to keep a promise he made to them after he won the 2016 presidential election.
The traders who have been conducting business around the Nima residence of the President for more than 20 years indicated that President Akufo-Addo deceived them with a promise to keep them there.
The traders who have started packing out of the now security zone revealed that they are gutted the president has failed to keep his promise.
“He told us in his house after he became president that he will not sack us from here and will allow us to continue to operate since he has been living with us for several years but now we have to move and I have nowhere to go,” a tearful trader moaned.
Another trader who was dismantling her shop added “I sell drinks and provisions and they gave me only 3,000 Ghana cedis to move out of the area. The money is not even enough to cart my container from here how much more start all over again.”
