[ 2015-06-02 ]

‘If you won’t let us sleep, you won’t sleep’ – Striking drivers
Angry commercial drivers, especially taxi drivers
say they will continue with their strike if the
police fail to release 26 of their members who
were arrested on Monday.

Some drivers were arrested on Monday at Ashiaman
for blocking some major roads during their strike
to protest certain new licensing policies of the
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA).

According to the chairman of the Committed Drivers
Association, Charles Mensah, “If they will not
let us sleep, they’ll also not sleep. We’ll
continue to strike for three days.”

Thousands of passengers were left stranded on June
1 as they struggled for commercial vehicles to
convey them to their work places following the
drivers’ industrial action.

The drivers say a directive from the DVLA for
every commercial vehicle to have seatbelt
installed in them is not feasible among other
directives.

The arrested 26 are expected to be arraigned
before court today.

Illegal
Meanwhile, the Transport Minister Dzifa Atsivor
has condemned the actions of the commercial bus
drivers.

“In the first place, they didn’t even send
their petition to us for us to even say we cannot
do anything about it or we reject their proposal.
You just get up one morning and cause a lot of
disaffection to the traveling public. It is not
right,” the minister said on Accra-based Citi
FM.

“If they have their concerns, they should write
to us at the Ministry, we will sit down and see
how best we can meet them halfway but I am not
happy they decided to take the law into their own
hands,” she insisted.

Source - Starrfmonline

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