According to the Police, since it’s commissioning, over 200 pedestrians have died, majority of who were knocked down by speeding vehicles.

Speaking to Citi News, Patrick Boamah underscored the urgent need for more footbridges and underpass to be provided on the highway.

“If you look at the statistics it is very worrying and over 300 people losing their lives. I’ve had countless media engagement on this issue; I’ve asked ministers of state questions on this issue but to no avail. The NPP has come to rule this nation, I’m a member of the NPP and I don’t want anyone to feel that I was doing these things because NDC was in power, no. I will continue to advocate for footbridges, flyovers, underpasses and good measures to prevent the happenings on the N1,” he added.

Patrick Boamah in the petition to prayed the Roads Ministry to fast track the construction of the footbridges.

He said the Police MTTU division has recorded about 5,460 accidents on the road six years after its completion.

“These past years in office I have sent appeals to government for the construction of footbridges that are disability friendly on the highway in 2014, Government assured that there were plans in place to construct additional footbridges on the accident-prone highway to ensure the safety of pedestrians. However, these calls and assurances never materialized as the highway continues to record very alarming numbers of casualties and accidents  I would therefore be appreciative if your office could consider the construction of additional disability friendly footbridges situated at the most busiest parts of the highways to curb the frequency of accidents on the road,” he added in the petition.

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All the accused persons are residents of Lapaz and its environs within the Okaikoi North Sub – metro of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA).

The Magistrate, Mrs Victoria Ghansah cautioned that, persons who flout sanitation laws would be given severe sanctions to serve as a deterrent.

The Magistrate advised the offenders to go and be ambassadors of a clean environment.

“In this country people act like there are no laws on sanitation,” she averred.

She urged AMA to get residents who have not yet registered under the polluter-pay policy to do so.

Briefing the media, the Sub Metro Director for Okai-North Sub Metro, Mr. Angel Ketadjo said for some time now some unscrupulous persons have been dumping refuse on the streets of Lapaz along the N1 high way in the night.

Due to this, the sub-metro formed a 20-member taskforce including the police to curb the menace.

The offenders were caught dumping the rubbish at Lapaz on the N1 main road and others were also caught at the Lapaz new market road.

All the 21 offenders were sent to the Tesano police station and later sent to the Abeka Magistrate Motor and Sanitation court of the AMA.

Mr. Ketadjo said, the exercise which will continue for the next 3 months is to curb illegal disposal of waste in the sub metro and also ensure that needed change in attitude is realized.

The task force according to Mr. Ketadjo will focus on are the ceremonial roads in Achimota, Tesano, Abeka and its surrounding environs.

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