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Some Garu residents in the Upper East region have expressed concern about the series of accidents caused by tricycles, popularly called ‘motor king’, and called for proper regulation of cyclists, who are mostly teenagers.
They say that the boys are inexperienced and travel recklessly.
Mr Christian Alalba, a resident and teacher by profession, confirmed the situation to the Ghana news agency in an interview and said that the ‘motor king’ services did more harm than good.
He said the large number of people being transported at once, on bicycle buckets, coupled with careless driving, often caused them to fall, especially when negotiating a curve.
He said the ‘motor king’ commonly served rural communities, especially during times of emergency, and was considered the cheapest means of transportation to travel by merchants who use it to go to nearby markets on market days.
Mr. Gilbert Abangiba, a nurse and victim of one of these accidents, described cyclists as reckless children who cause unnecessary deaths.
He said that most of the cycles had no reflectors and had poor lighting systems at night.
He said that with the emergence of Covid-19 and the large number of people found in each king motor and the non-adherence to the use of nasal masks put many lives in danger.
Therefore, he called on the Trade Union of Transport and Automotive Traffic (MTTU) to regulate drivers and control the number of people or the amount of cargo they carry to reduce accidents.
Police Inspector Ernest Quarm of the Bawku Police Command said that while many of the accidents were not reported to the police, in January 2021 there were five.
He said that passengers and the general public had been sensitized about speeding, but they stood firm, “we conduct operations without warning to arrest drivers who speed and those who overload passengers.”
