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Two drivers were last Tuesday fined a total of GHc1,000 by a Kumasi Circuit Court for various road traffic offences. The first driver was fined for not having a warning triangle and a fire extinguisher in his car while the other was fined for not covering his truck loaded with sand. The two pleaded guilty to the offences and were convicted on their own plea by the court presided over by Mr William Boampong and were fined Ghc 500.00 each or in default go to jail for three months. According to the prosecutor, Chief Inspector Mrs H.A Acheampong, the two were arrested during an operation supervised by the Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Nathan Kofi Boakye on the Kumasi-Accra highway. She said they were arrested at Aprade, a section of the Kumasi-Accra road, and a search on the first driver�s car revealed that he did not have a fire extinguisher and a warning triangle while the second driver who was in charge of a truck loaded with sand failed to cover it. The operation was part of measures by the police to check the high incidence of indiscipline on the roads and to ensure that drivers complied with road traffic regulations.