KMA HANDS OVER IDENTIFICATION STICKERS TO TRANSPORT UNIONS IN KUMASI.

• HON. OSEI ASSIBEY, 1ST FROM RIGHT, PRESENTING A SAMPLE OF THE STICKERS TO THE TRANSPORT UNIONS
• A SECTION OF THE TRANSPORT UNION LEADERS AT THE HANDING OVER CEREMONY
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KMA HANDS OVER IDENTIFICATION STICKERS TO TRANSPORT UNIONS IN KUMASI.

The Urban Transport Department of Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has handed over vehicle identification stickers to the recognized 24 transport unions including long distance routes vehicles in the Kumasi metropolis at a meeting on Tuesday 28thApril, 2020.

The move, as said by the Metropolitan Chief Executive, Hon. Osei Assibey Antwi, is envisaged to bring sanity to the public transport operations and also regulate the inflows and outflows of commercial vehicles in the Kumasi metropolis.

According to him, only vehicles with the Assembly’s identification stickers would be permitted to enter the Central Business District including the Kejetia Market to either pick or offload passengers, this he said will force “waawaa” vehicles to join the unions.

“Drivers without the stickers who will sneak into the CBD will be arrested and handed over to the Regional Police MTTD for necessary action,’ he stated.

Hon. Osei Assibey noted that the Assembly was in the process of setting up a task force comprising selected members from the KMA transport sub-committee, the Motor Traffic and Transport Division of the Ghana Police Service (MTTD), and the transport unions to regulate the initiative.

The identification stickers which will be pasted on each unionized vehicle, has the name of the particular transport union, the car registration number, the destination or route and features including the KMA’s logo, seal and other hidden security features.

‘Over 2,500 pieces of the identification stickers has been printed and handed over to the leadership of the 24 transport unions so far’, Hon. Osei Assibey Antwi disclosed.


Story: Emmanuel Antwi Jnr