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| National Coordinator Road Eagle, Mr Yaotse Kitsi Mark |
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| Ex Sgt. Kabore offering training to trainees |
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| U/E Regional Coordinator, Road Eagle |
25-03-2012
About 70 youth have successfully undergone a three day training programme on safe driving in Bolgatanga, the Upper East Regional capital. The trainees drawn mainly from the Bolgatanga municipality were taken through topics on motor way driving, traffic control signals and signs, road way marking, first aid on the road as well as regulatory and informative signs among other road safety disciplines. The Road Eagle Coordinator for Training on safe driving, Ex. Sgt Mohammed Abubakar Kabore said the focus of the training was to help prevent and curtail the high incidence of road carnage in the region and the country at large. Similar training on safe driving, he revealed had already taken place in 10 districts of Northern Region, notably, Tamale, Yendi, Zabzugu Tatale, Gushegu, Karaga, Savelugu and Bimbilla, where trainees were tasked with the responsibility of ensuring the safety of both pedestrians and drivers. Mr Kabore hinted that Road Eagle intends to extend its activities to benefit more youth, particularly the unemployed since they are entitled to allowances to sustain their livelihood. According to him, the trainees would begin their official duties, hopefully the first week of April, adding that the trainees would play a leading role in creating public awareness on road safety and charged the general public to lend them their maximum cooperation to help reduce road fatalities in the country. The National Coordinator for Road Eagle, Yaotse Kitsi Mark told Radio Ghana that the lost of innocent lives recorded daily on our roads is unprecedented in the history of the country, and needed urgent intervention to salvage the situation, hence the need for the training exercise. The initiative he explained was aimed at sensitizing and empowering the citizenry to make them advocates of road safety with the view to complementing the effort of the Ghana Road safety Commission and its collaborators. It is also geared at complementing the effort of the government police in ensuring an accident free country. He said his outfit currently has over 3,000 members nationwide out of which 500 are in the Upper East Region. The trainees according to him will be issued with identity cards to make them identifiable and would be responsible for the checking bad practices such as drunk driving and over speeding, as well as police extortion on the road. Their activities, he indicated is backed by the Road Safety Amendment Act 2008 Act 122. Mr. Mark however implored the media as well road safety advocators to help assist in curbing road accidents since it is a shared responsibility and not the duty of the police alone. The Regional Co-ordinator, Emmanuel Nsor Atindana for his part said it is high time road users especially passengers play a role in reducing the daily occurrence of road accidents in the country. Some of the trainees Radio Ghana spoke to expressed their delight for being part of the training and said they would act as icons in ensuring that road carnage is reduced to the barest minimum in the country.
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