Director of Planning and Programmes at the National Road Safety Commission, Ing. David Osafo Adonteng says measures have been put in place to curb indiscipline on the roads during the festive season.
According to him, all drivers and cyclists who do not comply with the road safety regulations put in place during the period will be dealt with according to the laws governing road usage in the country.
“The police are also out there, and I want to warn anybody, who within this season into the next year thinks that he has the law in his own hands and will not comply; we will use the law to discipline him or her and this is a warning. “
He emphasized that “we will be on the streets. We will be everywhere, branded, with our policemen ensuring that drivers in particular will comply with the rules and regulations. Anybody who fails to do that, we will term you as a recalcitrant, as a murderer, as somebody who will want to shed blood and so we will let the police arrest you and deal with you according to the law and it is a warning to drivers.”
Speaking on the Atlantic Wave on Monday, he said the year 2021 has not ended but the recorded cases of road accidents have so far exceeded the cases of road accidents in the previous years.
To this end, he called for a united effort by all stakeholders to assist in mitigating the sharp rise in road accidents.
The National Road Safety Commission over the years takes it upon itself to embark on sensitization programmes and campaigns aimed at educating road users especially, drivers on Road Safety and ways to curb road accidents.
Ing. Adonteng hinted that most road accidents can be prevented if drivers abide by all road safety protocols.
He urged all Ghanaians to help in the fight against indiscipline on the road by dialing 194 on all networks to issue reports to the road safety commission so that the culprits can be brought to book.
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Source: Eugenia Elikem Lawoe/ATLFMNEWS
