The Kpone District Police has met with the Assembly members of the Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Assembly at Municipal Assembly to inform the latter of its operation to reduce road accidents.
At a day’s meeting with the Assembly members and Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Superintendent Seth Tay, the District Commander, explained that the police need the utmost cooperation of the Assembly members for a successful operation.
That, he said they could do by educating the electorate on the need to possess all valid driving documents and motorists ensuring that their vehicles are roadworthy.
Superintendent Tay was emphatic that the police would not give in to “protocol phone calls” by political players, Assembly members, or opinion leaders when an offender, related to such persons, either close or distant, is arrested for breaking the rule during the operation, which had already begun.
“When you do that, you are emboldening people to disrespect us and urging them on more to break the road traffic regulations. We need you to help us enforce the road traffic regulations within the municipality.
A cross-section of the Assembly members at the meeting
The meeting formed part of the directives by the Greater Accra Regional Minister to the various Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assembly’s (MMDAs) to ensure that motorists adhered to strict road traffic regulations.
“Please sensitize the electorate and residents on the new traffic directives because ignorance of the law is not an excuse,” Superintendent Seth Tay said.
A police personnel addressing the participants
Solomon Tettey Appiah, Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), on his part, charged the Assembly members to be agents of change by assisting the police in their enforcement of law and order in their electoral areas.
“As the first point of call and role models, you need to set good examples by obeying the various traffic regulations for your electorate to emulate. When your people misbehave and the law catches them, allow them to be punished so that they don’t do that again,” he added.
The MCE assured the Kpone District Police that he would support the police achieve the vision of the Regional Minister, which is: ‘Accra must work’.
By: Umar Sheriff Musah