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Inspector Richard Timinka, an officer with the Police MTTD in the Tema region and founder of Roadmaster Ghana, has stated that frequent engagements with motorriders to ensure they obey road safety rules has led to a decline in accidents at intersections, especially traffic lights.
He also mentioned that his organization, Roadmaster Ghana, a road traffic and safety not-for-profit organization will collaborate with the Police MTTD to embark on aggressive stakeholder engagements during the festive season.
He said, “We will visit beaches, drinking spots, and lorry stations to speak to motorists on road safety, emphasizing the importance of not drinking and driving as well as obeying traffic regulations to protect the lives of pedestrians.”
Inspector Timinka said this during a kenkey fest organized by Roadmaster Ghana as part of strategies to drive home road safety education for about 200 motorists in the Tema and Ashaiman enclaves.
The event drew participants from GPRTU, PROTOA, Motor Riders Union, and other drivers from some companies onto the Chemu Park in Community 7, Tema.
This initiative which aimed at reducing road crashes in the country paved the way for participants to engage with police officials, fire service personnel and the National Road Safety Authority discussing the dos and don’ts on the road.
The Kenkey Fest served as an initiative to demonstrate reliance on the police and to foster relationships and cooperation for effective road safety management among key stakeholders.
Mr. Yves Nii Noi Hanson Nortey, the MP for Tema Central constituency, gracing the event urged drivers to learn and understand the road rules as it is extremely important to protect the lives of passengers, stating that the number of lives lost in road accidents in Ghana was more than plane crashes throughout the world in a year.
He quizzed, “Imagine you sit in an aeroplane and you are informed that the pilot didn’t attend piloting school and he is about to fly the plane from here to Dubai or London, do you think you will arrive? Wouldn’t you get scared and get down from the plane?”
He continued by saying “if passengers sit in a vehicle and the driver did not attend any driving school and for that matter doesn’t know any road rules but rather bought his license from an authorized person and is about to drive you to Kumasi, it puts your life at risk.”
Mr. Nii Noi Nortey encouraged organizers of the event to constantly have more training sessions for drivers as this will reduce the level of ignorance and motorists will have a better understanding of our road rules and use the roads properly for economic gains.
Miss Ernestina Adzo Dika, the Communications and Community Engagement officer at Roadmaster Ghana, in an interview with The Spectator, called for corporate institutions, philanthropists and all well-meaning Ghanaians to avail themselves to sponsor this educative initiative to enable them to replicate this programme to other regions in the country.
She said, “Roadmaster Ghana is ready to extend its tentacles to other parts of the country but we can’t do this with our limited resources so we would like to plead with everyone to come on board and support us because this program serves as a refresher course for these drivers and riders.”
The event was sponsored by Guinness Ghana, Engen Ghana Limited, GCB Bank, Ghana Union Assurance, X Natural Mineral Water and Coca Cola and partnered by Ghana Police Service, Ghana National Fire Service, and the National Road Safety Authority and Zondatec Ghana.
A 24-year-old tricycle (Pragyia) rider, has been jailed three months by the Nkawie Circuit Court in the Atwima Nwabiagya South Municipality of the Ashanti Region for biting a Community Police Assistant (CPA) at Nkawie.
Abdul Aziz pleaded guilty to the charge of negligently causing harm and was convicted on his own plea.
Police Inspector Kwaku Frimpong, prosecuting told the court presided by Mr Robert Addo that, complainants in the case were officers from the Nkawie Divisional Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service.
He said on September 3, at about 8:40am, the complainants led by Chief Inspector Abedi Larbi, were on their official patrol duty to ensure safety at Nkawie township and met the convict, who was in-charge of a Pragya tricycle with registration number M-25-A-3722.
He explained that, after a careful inspection, it was detected that the convict was without licence and other required documents, so Alhassan Seidu, the CPA, was instructed to lead him to the office for the next action.
On their way to the office, the convict took a different direction, so the CPA directed him to take the right route to the police station, but he disobeyed and attacked the CPA, resulting in a struggle between them.
In the process the convict bit the CPA on the chest, so he shouted for help and some nearby youth rushed to the scene and helped him to arrest the convict.
In his caution statement, he admitted the offence and after further investigations he was charged and brought before the court. –GNA
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The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has urged the government to place all 54,985 candidates affected by the 2026 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) placement exercise in schools and publish the final outcome.
The party says the government must ensure that the affected candidates secure actual school places rather than merely being allowed to access the self-placement portal.
In a statement signed by the Chairman of the NPP Policy Co-ordination Committee, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the party expressed concern about the situation facing the candidates.
The NPP said the government had announced that 53,887 of the affected candidates could use the self-placement system after initially being told that they had not qualified for secondary school.
It, however, argued that access to the portal did not guarantee that candidates would secure their preferred schools or programmes.
“Ghanaian parents and candidates will judge the resolution of the challenge by one thing only: how many of the original 54,985 are sitting in a classroom, not how many were allowed to open a website,” the statement noted.
The party said the government’s own figures showed that the country had 859,828 declared vacancies for 623,072 BECE candidates.
It explained that the main challenge was the concentration of demand in a small number of highly subscribed schools.
The NPP noted that 313,283 candidates selected Category A schools as their first choice, while those schools had 76,417 declared vacancies.
It therefore called on the government to explore ways to improve schools with available spaces, including providing teachers, laboratories and better programmes.
The party urged the government to use the 85 private schools participating in the Free SHS programme to absorb candidates who remained without placements.
The NPP further called for clarification of the rule and pass mark used for this year’s placement exercise, saying parents were entitled to know the standard before their children sat the examination.
It urged the government to take urgent action to ensure that the affected candidates were not left behind in the transition to secondary education.
By: Jacob Aggrey
