The National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) has called on government and parliament to pass the authority’s Legislative Instrument (LI) to enable it become fully operational on its mandate.
The LI 2108 subsections 101, 102, 103 104 105 106 107 will enable the NRSA to among other things check on driving of vehicles, Regulations on broken down motor vehicle and trailer, Requirements for towing of vehicle, rules on roads, etc.
Head of the Corporate Affairs Unit, Madam Pearl Adusu Gyasi says though the authority is doing its best to curb the increasing road accidents in the country, the absence of the LI draws back the authority in delivering fully on its mandate.
Speaking in an interview with ATLFMNEWS, she notes that the authority inspectors and personnel from the head office are always on the ground conducting inspections on vehicles as well as engaging drivers and passengers to ensure sanity on the roads.
She however said “after we’ve done these pre-inspections, what happens on the road? Because our LI is yet to be passed by parliament to become fully operational; so there are some aspects of the operationalization of our mandate that we don’t pull currently because the LI is not out.”
As such, she said, the call to intensify police patrol on the road is in the right direction.
In a press release issued by its Corporate Affairs Unit, the Authority called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo Dampare to increase the presence of Police personnel on high-risk corridors to help enforce road traffic regulations.
The call follows four different road accidents at the weekend which occurred in the Eastern, Oti, and Greater Accra Regions respectively, leading to 17 reported deaths with several cases of injuries.
Investigations blame excessive speeding, wrongful overtaking, inattentiveness, disabled vehicles, and fatigue as the causes of the accidents recorded.
The Head of the Corporate Affairs Unit, Madam Pearl Adusu Gyasi who describes this as unfortunate stated emphatically that such accidents are easily avoidable.
To her, if visibility of the police is increased at various points, sanity will be increased on the roads.
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Source: Rosemond Asmah/ATLFMNEWS
