News:
April 28, 2014
The Member of Parliament for the Agona East Constituency in the Central Region, Mrs Queenstar Maame Pokuah Sawyerr, has embarked on a road safety campaign to prevent vehicles from knocking down pupils in the constituency.
The project, dubbed: “Life First,’’ is aimed at protecting the lives of schoolchildren who cross some major roads in the area before getting to school.
Per the project, a box with a stop sign on it will be placed at both sides of the roads and when the schoolchildren get to the road side, all that they will do is to lift the stop sign and show it to the driver of a vehicle approaching.
The driver, upon seeing the sign, would have to stop for the pupils to cross the road before continuing the journey.
The district in recent past had recorded cases where pupils who were crossing the streets had been knocked down by vehicles, leading to the death of some of them, while others sustained varying degrees of injuries.
The beneficiary towns are Suromanya, Agona Duakwa, Mankrong Junction, Kortokoli Zongo and Swedru International School (SWIS) junction.
Essence of project
Mrs Pokuah Sawyerr, who is also the Deputy Central Regional Minister, told the Daily Graphic that the intervention was to save the lives of pupils who had to cross major highways in the area to get to school.
She stated that the cause of such accidents was absence of speed humps on such roads and the campaign was to ensure that the carnage on roads in the area was reduced or eliminated.
She explained that as the MP for the area, she was committed to the safety of all, particularly schoolchildren, and stressed that the move was to ensure that pupils did not meet their untimely deaths as they were expected to be adults to champion the development of the nation.
She assured communities yet to be hooked to the national grid that soon they would be provided with electricity to propel the development of such areas.
Daily Graphic