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The Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Mr. Kwesi Pratt who is also a leading member of the CJA, has castigated the Mills� administration and the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), for their handling of the decongestion exercise at the Central Business District of Accra. The NDC, he said, took advantage of the hawker�s situation to use cheap communist tactics, as well as putting a spin on every aspect of the NPP government�s action towards a similar decongestion exercise, in order to win sympathy votes from eligible voters in the 2008 elections. �Why are you doing this to the hawkers�, he inquired. �Sacking them means collapsing their business and how would they make ends meet?� he asked. According to him, some of these hawkers do not ply their trade on the pavements, yet the AMA still went ahead and sacked them. �This is also their source of income so the government should quickly find a solution to it and allow them to operate,� he advised. Pratt was speaking on Peace FM�s morning show, �Kokrokoo� during a studio discussion on the AMA�s decongestion exercise to rid the city of hawkers, especially at Central Business District of Accra.