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Cecil Garbrah, a transportation consultant, advised the country not to rush to legalize motorcycle operations, known locally as Okada motorcyclists.
Cecil Garbrah, who is also CEO of Top Tech Driving Institute, said officials should focus on reducing road accidents.
"It will be a good plan for the future, but not now … I think it's too early," he told Evans Mensah during Joy's TV show FM, Thursday.
According to him, statistics show that most road accidents are caused by Okada riders who insist: "If you see how they drive, you wonder: is it madness?
On Thursday, in front of Parliament, the leader of the minority, the bad Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, said that the House was considering legalizing Okada's services.
The MP of Asawase baderted that the legalization of Okada for commercial purposes "can generate income and create jobs to cope with unemployment problems in the country".
In 2012, Parliament adopted the Road Traffic Regulation 2012 (Legislative Instrument 2180) to regulate road transport.
Subsections 128 (1), (2) and (3) of the RE. 2180, prohibited the use of the motorcycle or tricycle for commercial purposes.
Okada has remained banned for commercial purposes also because it continues to be a major cause of fatal road accidents in the country.
Figures from the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) show that in 2014 alone, 2,571 people were overthrown by motorists, of whom 1,856 lost their lives..
In In 2015, 2,289 motorcycles were involved in road accidents throughout the country. In the first quarter of 2017, approximately 708 road users died as a result of 4,049 road accidents, of which 3,983 were injured to varying degrees.
But Mr. Mubarak Muntaka, who led the campaign, described the ban striking Okada as a "killing of the goose with gold eggs" because the benefits of Okada outweigh the costs. social.
He argued that farmers use a motorcycle or tricycle daily to transport food to and from their farms, while nurses and other health workers see them as the most effective way of accessing food. Backcountry to provide health care services.
However, the transport consultant said the country was not ready, questioning the principle that the motorcycle trade should be legalized.
Mr. Garbrah said that while this creates jobs "we need to do a survey and conduct a strategic survey before we can consider such a decision."
"In the countries that operate the services, we have to go there and discover [the dynamics and how it will play here]," he said.
He said that it remained to be wondered what the Parliament would do thereafter, with regard to the law against the operations of Okada runners.
"The service takes place because they can not stop them and I badure you that out of 100 runners from Okada, only 10 of them have a Licence," he stated.
According to him, this appeared when they recruited some companies and solicited the services of motorcyclists.
He also questioned the training required by riders to be legalized in order to offer such services.
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