January 20

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We’ll reward law-abiding commercial
drivers with GHc300 quarterly – PPP
THE PROGRES-
SIVE People’s Party
(PPP) says it will reward
law-abiding
commercial drivers
with a quarterly incentive
of GHc300, disbursed into
their bank accounts if they win
power in the December polls.
The stipend, the party explains,
is for commercial drivers who become
certified in basic first aid
and crash scene management.
The promise comes in the wake
of two recent tragic road accidents
at Dompoase on the Elmina-
Takoradi Highway on January 14
and the Kumasi Abrepo Highway,
on January 15, where scores of
people lost their lives.
In a press release on the spate
of road accidents, the party extended
its heartfelt condolences to
the families, who have lost their
loved ones, and sympathies to
those who have been injured. “We
wish to thank all the emergency
service providers and individuals
involved in assisting the victims,”
it said.
“We are challenging the government
to declare war on corruption,
which contributes directly
and indirectly to the unacceptably
•National Chairman of the PPP, Nii Allotey Brew Hammond
high levels of road traffic accidents
in our country,” the statement
read.
The PPP, among other promises
of ways it would prevent road
accidents when voted into power,
said it would “address mortality on
our roads, and areas a PPP government
will explore are the towing
of unsafe vehicles from our
roads with a sense of urgency and
the construction of inter-regional
highways.”
“We recommend that road traffic
injury prevention must be integrated
into the development and
management of road infrastructure,
the provision and inspection
of safer vehicles, law enforcement,
mobility planning, the provision of
health and hospital services, child
welfare services, urban and environmental
Planning.”
The statement added that “a
PPP government will ensure that
by the end of our first term in office,
every town and village will
have at least one licensed Emergency
Medical Technician (EMT)
within 5-10 miles that will be on
call every day of every year.”
“We will reward commercial vehicle
drivers who become certified
in basic first aid and crash scene
management with an incentive
such as quarterly payments of
GHc300, disbursed into their bank
accounts,” it promised.
The statement noted that “with
the implementation of the National
Identification System, we
will ensure that reckless drivers are
not given the opportunity and licence
to repeat their expensive
mistakes.”
“We recommend
that road traffic injury
prevention
must be integrated
into the development
and management
of road
infrastructure, the
provision and inspection
of safer
vehicles, law enforcement,
mobility
planning, the provision
of health and
hospital services,
child welfare services,
urban and environmental
Planning.”
Ignore fake corruption ranking on Ghana – GII
THE GHANA Integrity Initiative
(GII), the Local Chapter of Transparency
International (TI), says a
corruption ranking published by
some media houses which ranks
Ghana as the 3rd most corrupt
country across the world by perception
is fake and should be ignored.
A statement issued in Accra on
Friday, January 17, 2020 signed by
the Executive Director of GII,
Linda Ofori-Kwafo, said though
the story which was sourced from
www.usnews.com mentioned
Transparency International for its
definition of corruption and some
key statements from the 2018
theme, it did not attribute the rankings
to TI.
“Following the interest the said
story has generated among the
general public, GII wishes to officially
state that neither TI nor GII
has released any such report,” the
statement said.
It, however, announced that the
2019 Corruption Perception Index
by GII would be released on
Thursday, January 23, 2020.
In recent months, incidents of
fake news publications have been
on the upsurge. Mushroom news
websites and social media appears
•Linda Ofori-Kwafo, Executive Director of GII
to be gaining grounds as a fertile
home for fake stories which are
often attributed to credible individuals
or institutions. Various actors
globally are struggling to come to
terms with the phenomenon.
A statement issued
in Accra on Friday,
January 17, 2020
signed by the Executive
Director of GII,
Linda Ofori-Kwafo,
said though the
story which was
sourced from
www.usnews.com
mentioned Transparency
International
for its
definition of corruption
and some key
statements from the
2018 theme, it did
not attribute the
rankings to TI.