Ghana: Measures Taken By UE Road Safety Commission Make Impact

13 December 2009

The Directorate of the Upper East Regional Road Safety Commission (RSC) has been able to achieve some of its mandate of ensuring that motor riders use crash helmets, insure their bikes and posses genuine license among others things before going on the road.

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency after a regional workshop on "Insurance and Compensation Fund", at the weekend, the Regional Manager of the RSC, Alexander Ayata, explained that they were able to carry out the mandate by collaborating with the Motor Traffic and Transport Unit of the Police Service in September this year, to seize all motor cycles that did not have the necessary documentations to be on the road.

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