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Drivers and passengers who ply Tema station have registered their frustrations over trading activities impeding free vehicular movement and parking.

Ghana News Agency survey revealed that 50 per cent space at the station had been taken over by the traders.

Mr William Oquaye, the Chairman of Ghana Private Road Transport Union, Tema Station Branch, in an interview with Ghana News Agency said while Tema Station was established to serve drivers and passengers, the traders have now occupied almost every part of the station.

This, he said, posed a lot of challenges to drivers and passengers at the station.

He said the union reported the situation to Accra Metropolitan Assembly in 2012 to evacuate the traders but absolutely nothing had been done.

According to him, AMA as part of their daily routine activities collected taxes from these traders so they felt legally secured and settled.

GNA made attempts to get reactions from AMA but have yielded nothing. On three occasions that the GNA reporter visited the office of AMA, he was referred to officers, who were not forthcoming with any information on the issue.

Mr Adjetey Simon, a station master, told the GNA that lack of space was impeding vehicular movement while parking spaces, pavement and sitting bays for passengers had also been occupied by various hair dressers and nail beauticians creating further congestions.

Mr Mohammed Rashid, a passenger, told the GNA that he found it difficult to walk through the numerous traders to board a car.