As part of efforts to enhance collective safety practices within the West African region, the Republic of Ghana is planning a partnership with Nigeria on data base integration, bordering on the registration of vehicles and drivers on the continent of Africa.
Speaking during a state visit to the Republic of Ghana, the Corps Marshal and Chief Executive of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Osita Chidoka, advocated for an integrated data base on registration of vehicles and drivers within the sub-region and the need to foster existing rapport between the two countries to enhance safer road use in Africa.
The reciprocated visit was fallout of a recent visit by the Ghanaian President to Nigeria, John Draman Mhama, who was represented by the Vice President at the FRSC 5th Annual Lecture Series. It was at the instance of an invitation by the President Mhama for the FRSC Corps Marshal to be in Ghana for further deliberations and to seek areas of mutual collaboration between Nigeria and Ghana.
According to the Corps Marshal, who is also the President of the West African Road Safety Organisation (WARSO), an integrated data base on vehicles registration and drivers between the two countries, will go a long way to boost efforts being presently put in place to combat crime and other form of security challenges confronting the West African Sub-region.
In his response, the Ghanaian President commended the Corps Marshal for the developmental strides which the FRSC had taken under the present dispensation to transform road safety management in Nigeria, which had, to a large extent, impacted positively on the road culture in Nigeria.
Dramani also urged West African countries to key into an on-going advertorial by the Kenya government, which seeks to give voice to passengers to put the driver under check in the event any reckless driving.
The highpoint of the meeting was the need to raise the bar on road safety management in Africa and the enhanced capacity building initiatives to enrich and equip drivers and road safety officers with contemporary global trends for road safety practices and management.
Dramani also assured Chidoka of his country’s willingness to partner with Nigeria to replicate its on-going plans to assist Sierra Leone to establish a lead agency in road safety management in Ghana.
