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General News of Saturday, March 23, 2019
Source: Myjoyonline.com
2019-03-23
Host Good Morning Ghana, Randy Abbey
For example, Randy Abbey, host of Good Morning Ghana, magazine magazine on Metro TV, describes the response of national authorities to recurring national problems, one of which is increasing the number of road accidents.
It may seem that his description is based on the many times he has had to moderate the discussions on the staggering figures of road accidents.
It is also likely that even though Randy Abbey, a former spokesperson for the Ghana Football Federation (GFA), has himself been actively involved in discussions on national issues, the people mandated to act and solve the problems are failing. in pursuit of their goals. mandate.
Commenting on Friday's accidents in the Joy FM / Multi TV news channel, in the Bono Est region and in the central region, which killed 90 people on Saturday, he said he found it interesting to have to talk to new road accidents.
"I remember we had to deal with this problem in this program one of the few times I came here and it's just to tell you how we are a talkative nation," he said. declared.
While reading some of these questions for Newsfile, a news program, he discovered that "last year, three separate accidents occurred in the Northern Region on Saturday and Sunday, resulting in the deaths of 29 people.
"I think it was around April, and by that time, from January 1 to March 31, 2018, no less than 592 people died … and we had more than 300 wounded."
Following these deadly incidents, he recalls that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had approved a plan of action to deal with road accidents in the country.
"Following the upsurge of road accidents, Nana Akufo-Addo set up a committee composed of three people, consisting of the Minister of the Interior, Transportation and Roads, in order to avoid the risk of accidents. develop a plan to reduce the threat.
"After receiving and reviewing the committee's report, Nana Akufo-Addo approved its immediate implementation," he said in a press article last year.
Questions
A statement from the Ministry of Information then indicated that the three-member committee had formulated recommendations for action in three key areas: education, law enforcement and law enforcement. 39; engineering.
With regard to education, the Government indicates that the Government will provide additional resources to the National Road Safety Commission to strengthen road safety education and public awareness with an additional $ 6.5 million. GHS from the road fund.
"The question we have to ask ourselves is this: was it done?" Asked Randy Abbey.
About the application, the Ministry of Information said in its statement that the plan of action will be: "The enforcement of the Highway Code by the police through one-off fines resulting from the automation of MTTD operations ".
Again, Mr. Abbey asks, "Has this been done?"
"Work with private towing companies and Nationwide Traffic Management and Enforcement Limited (NTMEL) to enforce the regulations vigorously. Was this done? It's been a year, "he asks again.
About engineering: the government said it will "endow the Ghanaian Highway Authority, the Department of Urban Roads and the Department of feeder roads of at least 340 million GHS per year for road signage and marking over a period of three years ".
"Has this been done?" Asked Randy.
"So it's a plan of action, approved by the president, which was announced on April 16, 2018. We are here a year later, and we are discussing the deaths of 90 people in a weekend. We love to talk, "commented the Good Morning Ghana host.
Watch the video below for Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, editor of the New Crusading Guide; Kofi Abotsi, former Dean of GIMPA Law School and Partner at Axis Legal; and Kofi Bentil, Senior Vice President of IMANI-Africa, on the issue of road accidents in Ghana.
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