Jasikan Police Intensify Enforcement of Motor Traffic Laws

Jasikan, Sept 20, GNA - The Jasikan Police Command has set in motion measures to strictly enforce motor traffic regulations to prevent accidents and to protect lives and property.

ASP Benjamin Dokurugu, Jasikan District Police Commander, who told the Ghana News Agency, said that the frequency of avoidable accidents resulting from riding of motorbikes without helmets had necessitated the operation "Respect the Law." He said though riding without a helmet constituted an offence punishable by imprisonment or a fine or both, its enforcement had been relaxed by and large.

Mr Dokurugu said between January and June, the District recorded several motorbike accidents resulting into 24 deaths and multiple injuries to riders and passengers, which was a great loss to the nation. He said as a strategy, audience was initially sought with stakeholders, including chiefs and community members, the judiciary and heads of decentralized organisations on the need for their co-operation and support towards curbing the preventable deaths and injuries. Mr Dokurugu said the significance of the exercise was to encourage the culture of collective responsibility among the users of the roads towards stemming the rising accident rates. He said it took his administration three months to implement this strategy promising to extend the exercise to other areas that were problematic in the district.

Mr Dokurugu commended the people for embracing the exercise, calling on other Police jurisdictions to replicate the exercise towards the maintenance and sustenance of law and order.