{"id":318326,"date":"2017-05-11T17:12:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T17:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=318326"},"modified":"2017-05-11T17:12:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T17:12:59","slug":"road-safety-commission-embarks-on-outreach-to-curb-overspeeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/05\/road-safety-commission-embarks-on-outreach-to-curb-overspeeding\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Safety Commission embarks on outreach to curb overspeeding"},"content":{"rendered":"
The National Road Safety Commission (NRSC), with the Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service, have embarked on a speed Enforcement and Outreach Exercise on the Kasoa-Winneba-Mankessim-Cape Coast road, one of the notable hot spots for road traffic crashes and fatalities.<\/p>\n
The exercise is in connection with\u00a0the campaign unveiled by the NRSC on speed on Monday, May 8, 2017, dubbed “Save Lives: #Slow Down,” to observe the Commemoration of the West Africa Road Safety (WARSO) Day and UN Global Road Safety Week.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n The WARSO Day is a day set aside on May 8 every year to be observed by member countries to celebrate the Anniversary and Inauguration of the association.<\/p>\n Made up of 15 countries and 4 non-governmental Organizations (NGOs), the West Africa Road Safety Organization was inaugurated on 8th May, 2008, under the auspices of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), by the then President of the ECOWAS Commission, His Excellency Dr. Muhammed Ibn Chambers.<\/p>\n Celebrating its 9th Anniversary, WARSO has existed to foster partnership and collaboration at the sub-regional level to advance road safety agenda and enhance knowledge sharing and harmonization of some National plans of action within the sub region.<\/p>\n Also, WARSO is to promote and reinforce road safety activities and practices in West Africa through effective management of road safety and traffic matters with the view of drastically reducing road traffic crashes.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Ghana as part of the United Nations (UN) and an implementing country of the UN Decade of Action, a document of which it is a signatory that seeks to reduce road traffic crashes to 50% by the year 2020 which began in 2011 also joined member countries to observe the UN Global Road Safety Week.<\/p>\n In its 4th Anniversary, the week, therefore, comes off from the 8th to 14th May, by way member countries are being encouraged to remain committed and focused on the target set in the Decade of Action document.<\/p>\n WARSO has adopted the UN Decade of Action as an implementing working document in all it member states. It was of this reason that in this year, both WARSO and UN chose the same theme on speeding.<\/p>\n