The apprehended tricycle riders were made to collect the refuse they left on the motorway to the Kpone land fill site in Tema to serve as a deterrent.

The TMA has further warned that it will deal ruthlessly with offenders if they do not desist from being public nuisance.

The Assembly hopes to engage the Ghana Highway Authority to ban these tricycle riders from moving on the highway as part of efforts to curb their illegal activities.

Felix Mensah-La, Mayor of the Tema Metropolitan Assembly speaking to Citi News said, “We as an Assembly cannot sit down for them to continue to dump refuse on the Motorway, so today for instance the special task-force together with the police arrested about 25 ‘aboboyas’ (tricycles). We are saying this to both the Aboboya Associations in Accra and those ones we have in Tema; they are in to do business and should do fair business with the Assembly. If they continue to behave this way we will take action against them.”

Background

For some months now, some refuse collectors in the city of Tema have adopted a very unhealthy approach of disposing refuse. They collect  the waste from homes by dumping them on the major highways in the country.

The major culprits in  this act are the tricycle riders who according to eyewitnesses pretend to have a fault with their tricycles and end up offloading their refuse load at those spots.

The acts of these unscrupulous folks have turned various parts of the Accra-Tema Motorway into an eyesore with a very foul stench.

The Accra-Tema Motorway is suffering the brunt of the illegality as refuse collectors who use tricycles, in an attempt to make more money, dispose the waste meant for landfill sites in the median of the motorway.

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By: Michael Ogbodu/citifmonline.com

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The situation, especially in the rainy season, is of great concern to most residents in and around Accra. Their fears are heightened because of the obvious health challenges inappropriate disposal of waste presents.

In this report, Citi News‘ Philip Nii Lartey tells us how the situation has led to the use of tricycles to collect waste from most households in the capital.

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By: citifmonline.com/Ghana

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According to REGSEC, the motorized tricycles usually registered for private use are being largely operated on commercial basis by under-aged people without license.

REGSEC also noted that, most operators of the tricycles driven with impunity without recourse to traffic regulations.

The council also uncovered reported cases of duplication of motor-cycle registration numbers under investigations by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA).

In a press statement issue by secretary of REGSEC, Alhaji Abdulai Abubakar disclosed that, the ban was necessary to secure the safety of lives and property in the municipality.

“The council has weighed the possibility of banning the use of tricycles in the Bolgatanga Municipality between 7:00pm and 6:00am each day for a month effected Friday, May 26, 2017.

The Bolgatanga municipal assembly has also been impressed to invoke sanctions on drivers and vehicle owners who park wrongly in the township particularly major trunk roads and artillery roads.

The Council will be left with no option but to fully implement planned sanctions against offenders, if the current trend of events continues.”

Upper East Regional police commander DCOP Redeemer Vincent Dadjoe said the directive which will be fully implemented to the latter, should not be seen as witch hunting but for the security and safety of all residents.

“We have the men to fully implement the ban effective 26th May, 2017 and any offender will be arrested and prosecuted. Also even those who will be riding these tricycles on the roads of the municipality without riding license will be arrested and prosecuted.”

But Secretary of tricycle riders’ association Mr. Salifu Baba Yahaya appelaed to REGSEC to reconsider the ban from 9:00pm to 6:00am, adding that, the current ban will have dire implications on commuters’ especially traders in the night.

“These tricycle businesses have come to help we the youth because not all of us can go to school and this is what we do to survive. We agree that, some of the riders are minors, some don’t have license and others don’t also obey traffic regulations. We are also aware that, the tricycles were registered for private use but actually we are using them on commercial basis.”

“We think the police should enforce the law by arresting and prosecuting those minor riding the tricycles and those without riding license but not ban us from operating from 7:00pm to 6:00am that is unfair. Again, there should instruct us (tricycle operators) to re-register the tricycles for commercial use but not to ban us from operating.”

Mr. Yahaya said, an emergency meeting will be convened to discuss the ban and subsequently write to the Regional Security Council to reconsider their decision.

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By: Frederick Awuni/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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