The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has arrested a food seller at Accra’s OA Bus Terminal for selling tainted food to the public.
The AMA stated that the seller, Faustina Naana Eshien, was detained on Tuesday after it was discovered that she was selling sour chicken to clients.
The arrest was made possible, according to the assembly, by “a Facebook post by Obaa Yaa Bediide on the TroTro Diaries page about the discovery when she purchased from the vendor who admitted the offence and decided to split the GHC20 cost of the chicken into two, citing low patronage.”
According to the AMA’s Head of Public Affairs, Gilbert Ankrah, the food seller was caught selling sour fried chicken for public consumption and failing to get a medical health certificate after word of her actions spread on social media.
This, he noted, is in violation of the AMA bylaw as well as Section 100(3) of the Public Health Act, 2012 (Act 851), which prohibits a person from selling or offering for sale food that is unwholesome or unfit for human or animal consumption and consists in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid, rotten, decomposed, or diseased animal or vegetable substance.
The food vendor is anticipated to face prosecution in court.
The AMA expects that the action will operate as a deterrence to others.
