<<Print>>

Trucks which haul goods from the Tema Harbour would soon operate from a designated parking lot. At the moment, the trucks park on the shoulders of major roads in the Metropolis. Mr Isaac Ashai Odamtten, Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), who announced this at a news briefing, said Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) and Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) are collaborating to provide the space. �I have had meetings with management of GPHA and an agreement has been reached for a proper parking place to be constructed for waiting trucks to prevent them from parking indiscriminately on the streets,� he said. He said even though operations of some haulage truck drivers are a nuisance to residents, the haulage sub sector cannot be done away with. According to him, residents are worried that the trucks park on the streets encourages immoral activities in the metropolis as people use the back and under of the vehicles for such vices. Mr Odamtten said there could be some form of correlation between such immoral activities and the HIV prevalence rate of the metropolis which is higher than that the average rate of the Greater Accra Region. The MCE noted that providing the parking lot would also help in the fight against immorality and the high rate of HIV in the harbour city.