Ghana: Govt dedicates GH¢1b to improve road safety, GH¢b for public education, training

The government of Ghana has allocated GH¢1 billion budget to improve road safety that includes fixing traffic lights, erecting road signs and paint blurred road markings. The country’s President, Nana Akufo-Addo had set up the inter-ministerial committee last year to focus on the increasing number of cases of accidents on the roads.

The action of allocating of GH¢1 billion budget by the Ghanaian government takes place after a bus accident at Kintampo Techiman Road took lives of 50 people. According to CTGN Africa, the committee also recommended that GH¢6.5 million be allocated to the National Road Safety Commission for public education and training.

May Obiri Yeboah, Commission’s Executive Director said to the journalists on March 24 that her outfit has started implementing the recommendations by the committee. National Road Safety Commission has given accepted the proposal of Motor Transport and Traffic Directorate to enable them to remove disabled vehicles from the road. Even it has given permission to deploy traffic camera system to detect vehicles’ speed, red-light and traffic-related offences.

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