The Government is dedicating GH¢1 billion to fix traffic lights, erect road signs and paint defaced road markings to improve road safety.
This part of the recommendation by the inter-ministerial committee set up by President Akufo-Addo last year to look into the increasing cases of carnages on the country’s roads.
The action takes place less than a week after a fatal bus accident on Ghana’s Kintampo Techiman road in Bono East region. More than 50 people were killed.
The committee also recommended that ¢6.5 million be allocated to the National Road Safety Commission for public education and training.
Executive Director of the Commission May Obiri-Yeboah told journalists Sunday, March 24, her outfit has started implementing the recommendations by the committee.
The report recommended that the NRSC approved the proposal of the MTTD to enable them to remove disabled vehicles from the road, deploy Traffic Cameras Systems to detect and apprehend speed, red-light and related traffic offences.
