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General news for Friday, September 25, 2020
Source: GNA
2020-09-25
Mohammed Adjei Sowah, Accra Metropolitan Executive Director
Mohammed Adjei Sowah, the CEO of Accra Metropolitan has commended Bloomberg Philanthropies for Global Road Safety for extending the six-year road safety project to Kumasi City. Sowah made the eulogy when he addressed a virtual meeting in Accra to boost Bloomberg Philanthropies’ country support for road accident prevention in the country.
Ghana was selected in February this year as one of 15 countries to benefit from Bloomberg Philanthropies’ $ 240 million commitment to help prevent road traffic fatalities over a six-year period from 2020 to 2025.
Accra and Kumasi have been chosen to be part of 30 cities around the world that will benefit from the project. The virtual meeting was attended by the Minister of Transport, Kweku Ofori Asiamah, the Executive Director of the National Road Safety Authority, Mrs. May Obiri Yeboah, Metro Coordinating Director of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and other representatives of the organizations interested in road safety.
Mr. Sowah said: “Five years ago, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly was privileged to be part of the first five-year phase of this life-saving project and has marked many successes on the ticket of this initiative. We are excited to partner with Bloomberg Philanthropies once again in the new six-year phase of this important mission to reduce accidents and save lives. The Executive Director said that statistics had shown that traffic accidents and their related deaths and injuries were increasing in the country and that the respective assemblies should work to the best of their ability in the association to ensure the reduction of traffic accidents and related injuries. deaths. across the nation.
Mr Asiamah said: “The great success that I have personally witnessed in the first phase of this project in the city of Accra lends credence to the fact that Ghana will benefit greatly from this project.
“My Ministry and I pledge our unwavering support to Bloomberg Philanthropies on this six-year journey to save lives.”
The Bloomberg Philanthropies, building on the success of 12 years of investment in road safety, announced in February, during the 3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety, organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Stockholm, Sweden, a doubling of your support. for global road safety, securing another $ 240 million between 2020 and 2025 to save 600,000 lives and prevent up to 22 million injuries in participating low- and middle-income counties around the world, such as Ghana.
The six-year reinvestment in the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety is expected to double the impact of these life-saving measures.
Since 2007, the initiative has saved nearly 312,000 lives and prevented up to 11.5 million injuries.
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