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Beginning September 15, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) will ban all truck pushers who operate within the metropolis. The AMA has announced that all truck pushers who operate from some ceremonial and major roads within the Accra Metropolis would not be allowed to operate. Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije, Metropolitan Chief Executive of Accra on Tuesday met with executives of the Push Trucks Association and leaders of truck and scrap dealers associations within the metropolis to formally announce the purported plans to them. The AMA boss, at the meeting, discussed with the members the regulation of the use of the trucks within the area of its jurisdiction. Mr. Vanderpuije lamented that activities of truck pushers in the metropolis were getting out of hand as the pushers posed danger to motorists and put their own lives at risk, hence the assembly�s decision to regulate the truck pushers� activities. �The new directive has been possible as a result of how the truck pushers have been casing disruptions to normal traffic flow in the city,� the AMA boss said. He hinted that the activities of the truck pushers would be allowed but restricted within the markets and its environs.