The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) has disclosed that it has obtainedreviews that a number of its drivers eat alcohol and cocaine-weighted down toffee so asnow no longer to doze offat the same time astravelling on long-distance journeys.
General Secretary for the GPRTU, Godfred Abulbire discovered this all through an interview with Evans Mensah on Newsnight, on Monday. This revelation comes at thereturn of the National Security’s description of street carnages as a capacitysupply of civil unrest and figuring out the GPRTU as a first-rateoffender for street carnages.
He stated that even though the Union has obtained such reviews, it's farbut to understand any motive forcewho's culpable. “Like you have beenspeakmeapproximatelyinebriatedusing or whatever, folkson thefactor departure might not drink. Halfway, they prevent and inputa few spots and take a few drinks.
I can say that a fewindividualswithinside the North withinside the Upper East coming to Tamale and Kumasi have been banned. But the state of affairsnow'sturning intogreater than we expected…now no longer even alcohol alone, I bear in mindany individualknown as me and stated, have I heard of this toffee this isfabricated from cocaine or whatever, and I statedI havein no way seen, howevera few ways, I have heard approximately it,” he stated. Mr. Abulbire advised passengers to record drivers who can belocatedresponsible for such acts. He stated the GPRTU couldfunction itself to get prooftowards drivers who'reconcerned to make suresuitablemovement is taken towards them. “It isn'tclean to get them till it happens. That’s why I stated that we want to empower the passengers onboard each car.
The passenger ought to be formidablesufficient to record such conditionsonce they see it. “We haven’t gotten one, any motive force or institutionwho'reconcerned and the proof provided, we can take drastic measures towardsthe sort ofmotive force,” he stated. Mr. Abulbire is burdened that the Union will henceforth now no longer take such reviews lightly. Meanwhile, the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) has statedit's going topreserve the Union answerable for any misbehaviour from individuals of the GPRTU.
“They are required to make sure that their drivers are well-trained. They shouldinstallvicinitystructures electronically or in any other caseto testthose things. If they don’t, the regulation mandates us to inform them withinside the first vicinity for a length for them to confirm or we canvisit the volume of halting their operations tillthey agree to the policies and regulations,” Acting Director of the NRSA, David Adonteng advised Evans Mensah on Newsnight.
However, Godfred Abulbire disagrees with the NRSA’s chance to preserve the Union responsiblein preference to the man or woman drivers. “When you are saying human error, it mannerthe individual thatbecomesat theguidance wheel did now no longerfollowstreetprotection measures and as a resultbrought about the accident. Now, in case youdepart that characterand are available to preserve the Union chargeable for his errors, which we've gotdefined as human factor…on this case, retaining the union itself or ultimate down the station, how some distance will that extrude the conduct of folksusing,” he asked.
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