Former President Jerry John Rawlings has mourned the lives lost in Friday’s two separate accidents in the Central and Bono East regions.
The first at Ampomakrom, near Techiman, at dawn left at least 50 persons dead while the one at Ekumfi-Dunkwa left eight lives lost.
In a statement to mourn with the bereaved families, Mr Rawlings said “too many lives are lost on our roads due to indiscipline and sheer recklessness”.
He therefore charged the Motor Traffic and Transport Department of the Ghana Police Service, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority, the Ghana Private Road Transport Union, the National Road Safety Commission and allied agencies to “wake up to their responsibilities to make our roads a little safer”.
He stressed that “these deaths are preventable”.
For him, so long as drivers continue to get away with prosecution, road carnage “will continue to be a cover for manslaughter”.
Source: 3news
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Kofi respect the former president and understand his time in office and population and vehicles were not many as at now, you should rather suggest to the existing President to plan for dual carriage for all our major road networks in Ghana. Rawlings has done his best for this nation, may be you were not born or you were kid during revolution, Rawlings I saw him carrying cocoa from the ***barred word*** and also working with the Ghana railway worker to construct rail lines. He is a human being and not perfect always.Rawlings has a big heart for the nation. Let us forgive and forget his past differences and as long as he lives and I hope God will grant him more years to live. Let us give him the respect as former president and statesman.
***barred word*** there! you could used your 20+ years in power to construct dual carriage roads between the major cities in the country. but you were only interested in hounding successful (akan) businessmen and destroying their hard properties and dreams