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.
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