[ 2015-11-26 ]

It Is Good To Have Bad Roads In Ghana - Minister Fuseini
Alhaji A.B. Fuseini, Deputy Northern Regional
Minister has suggested the most effective way to
ensure safety on the roads in the country is to
have bad roads.

He said bad roads are more lives saving in terms
of road accidents than good ones

According to him not even erecting speed rumps was
a panacea to the increasing number of deaths on
the road.

The minister was delivering a speech on behalf of
the Regional Minister at Road Safety Awards for
Stakeholders Wednesday

Hon. A.B. Fuseini said "There is a serious
contradiction I have seen in Road traffic
management and that contradiction is, sometimes we
care about bad roads, but the roads seem in
certain instances to have better records of
protecting lives than even the better ones".

The minister recalled that the better the roads
the more accidents that are recorded on it.

He indicated that not too long ago they were
traveling on the Fufulso Sawla road and because of
the very bad nature of the road the speeding was
relatively curtailed.

He said people were more careful and were all
avoiding the potholes.

However, the deputy minister said people were now
driving at a neck breaking speed and the number of
accidents that were already recorded on those
roads appeared to be increasing more than it used
to be since government tarred that particular
stretch.

Regional Manager of Road Safety Commission Mr.
Alexander Ayattah said the region has recorded a
high number in Road accidents and named Tamale,
Bole, Sawla, Savelugu, Yendi, Walewale and Buipe
as the crash prone areas where these accidents
were recorded.

Mr. Ayattah indicated that even though there was a
marginal decrease in the number of deaths as
compared to last year, the commission would embark
on more aggressive education to sensitize the
people on the need to keep traffic regulations.

He attributed the high rate of accidents in the
region to the general indiscipline on the part of
drivers.

Source - Peacefmonline

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