The central regional minister, Mr. Kwamena Duncan has rehashed the need for all stakeholders to put in place measures that will end the scores of accidents that the country and families suffer often.
Speaking on Peace Fm’s Kokrokoaa this morning in relation to the ghastly accident at Komenda in the central region, which claimed over 30 lives with some unidentified victims yesterday, he described himself as a “bearer of very bad news in a very monstrous proportion” adding that these accidents are many at times highly preventable.
Mr. Kwamena Duncan was very worried about the recklessness of some drivers especially that of sprinter busses saying that they make him wonder if these drivers realize it was the lives of passengers they were putting at risk.
Asking as to whether we will continue to talk about them when they happen and go back to put the issues aside, the minister further admonished passengers to help end such unfortunate situations by acting as watchdogs who will make sure that drivers are not putting lives at risk. “It looks like nothing new but we cannot go on like that. We all as stake holders must join forces to bring this to an end” he said
Speaking on the same issue, Mr. Bernard Allotey Jacobs, the former chairman of the NDC in the central region said that these accidents are mainly as a result of indiscipline on our roads also citing drivers of sprinter buses as defaulters.
According to Mr. Allotey Jacobs, aside the issue of indiscipline, other causes of accidents on the Accra-Takoradi Highway where the accident happened were the engineering of some parts of the road citing the Komenda Junction to Dompoase and Gomoa Adewukoadze to Okyeredo stretches as examples.
He believes that for these accidents to end, there is the need to educate drivers extensively on using our roads as well as revamping the railway sector.
