The Accra Motor Traffic Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service is touting the successes chalked by Citi TV’s War Against Indiscipline (WAI) campaign.
Speaking at the 5th Biennial National Safety Conference on behalf of the Director-General of MTTD, Superintendent Dr. Samuel Sasu-Mensah indicated that the campaign has helped reduce the rate of accidents recorded on roads.
He said the police want to extend the partnership with Citi TV to other parts of the country to ensure discipline on the country’s roads.
“If you drive through the Spintex Road you will observe that people are really comporting themselves and they are observing traffic rules and regulations. We intended to grow this partnership throughout the country. That to some extent reduced the number of people who drive carelessly and recklessly on the road and mortality is obviously reduced. What we want to do is to create a system where road users will be detected and penalized when they do the wrong thing,” Dr. Samuel Sasu Mensah said.
Meanwhile, the Managing Director of Citi FM/TV, Samuel Attah-Mensah who was also at the conference said politicians and Parliament must give the needed support to the campaign to ensure that it is effective.
He expressed regret over the level of indiscipline exhibited by some Members of Parliament and other members in the political class.
“The bizarre issue is that, there is a group of privileged people and people who belong to the political class who have claimed ownership to recklessness on our roads, [that] they should be able to drive on the opposite side of the road because they are Members of Parliament or because they are political appointees who look down on our law enforcement agencies,” he said.
“You may chant and shout for all you can at the police but the police cannot do anything on their own if they do not have the backing of Parliament,” Samuel Attah-Mensah added.
Citi TV in collaboration with the Ghana Police Service embarked on the War Against Indiscipline campaign in May 2019 to help curb the spate of indiscipline on our roads.
The campaign has resulted in the arrest of several indisciplined drivers, majority of whom were processed for court and slapped with fines.