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General News of Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Source: Myjoyonline.com
2019-03-26
Road Transport Consultant, Cecil Garbrah
Cecil Garbrah, a road transport consultant, urged the National Road Safety Commission to take proactive measures to reduce the number of road accidents.
Toptech's Executive Director wants the NRSC to focus on coordinating state agencies to end the ever-increasing number of road deaths and injuries.
The Commission wants a change in its legislation concerning indiscipline following devastating carnage on a major highway that caused dozens of deaths on Friday.
The two disasters in the Bono East and Central areas cost the lives of at least 90 people.
Commission Director May Obiri-Yeboah explained that all the powers she currently has are convincing as they have been created to carry out awareness raising and awareness activities on road safety.
"If we do not have teeth to bite, we will continue education," she said Monday Joy FM Super Morning Show.
However, Cecil Garbrah said Monday night on PM Express on the Joy News channel that, even if, theoretically, the Commission's additional powers, when it would become an authority, could secure Ghana's roads, the name change "will not solve the problem".
"Tricycles are used to transport human beings and people are dying in this country. We go outside and the laws work, we come here and they do not work because our application is weak.
"Let us agree and change the application of the law rather than changing from commission to authority. I'm not saying it's not going to help. But let's focus on law enforcement, "he said of PM Express.
However, refuting Mr. Garbrah's badertions on the news program, Daniel Waku, Deputy Director of Planning and Programs at the NRSC, said the NRSC would be able to forcefully demand compliance with its obligations. when he would become an authority.
He added that the agency would then be able to guarantee mental health in the transport sector and deal effectively with transport unions.
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