“We Have Always Wanted to Regulate Okada” – NPP
The National Patriotic Party (NPP)’s National Communications Director, Mr Buaben Asamoah has said that their party have always wanted to regulate the use of commercial motorcyle widely called Okada.
When NDC’s presidential candidate, John Mahama came out to announce that when he’s voted to rule Ghana again he’ll legalise and regulate the use of Okada, some NPP bigwigs came out to condemn him.
Most of them were of the view that legalisation Okada as an avenue to create employment for the Youth as Mahama has proposed shows how incompetent he is.
However, it appears the NPP are backtracking on their criticisms as Mr Buaben Asamoah has explained that although Okada is illegal, it’s still in operation. So it’s not as if they’re against it but rather they have been planning all along on how to regulate it in accordance to the reccomendations of the Ministry of Transport.
“Our position hasn’t changed. What people assume to be our position may not even be accurate because the practical reality on the ground, as far as this Okada thing is concerned, is that John Mahama [when he was President] issued an L.I.(Legislative Instrument) for it to be banned…”
“We have not enforced that L.I. Otherwise, based on that there will be no Okadas in town. So we are not against Okada, if that is the position that people think the party has. We are not against Okadas because we haven’t enforced the rules against them,” he told GhanaWeb on Monday, September 7, 2020, acknowledging that Okada operations reduce employment, especially among the youth in the country.
He asserted that the NPP and President Nana Akufo-Addo government on Okada are not against the operations of Okada, but are acting in consonance with recommendations of the Ministry of Transport contained in a document entitled: “Facilitation Services for Consultation on Motorcycle Operations in Ghana,” which among others, says that Okada operations should be properly regulated and gradually phased out for a much safer means of Transport, especially in the cities.
Source: OccupyGh.com
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