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General news for Thursday, September 17, 2020
Source: FM class
2020-09-17
John Dramani Mahama, standard-bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC)
The next administration of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will supply motorcycles to Okada operators on installment terms, former President John Mahama promised.
Speaking at a mini-durbar of Kajeji chiefs and people in the Sene East constituency of the Bono East region, the NDC flag bearer said that after his next government amends the law to legalize the use of motorcycles for commercial services of passengers, “we will bring motorcycles and give them in terms of purchase in installments.”
Mahama first made the promise to legalize Okada a few weeks ago during his tour of the Volta region.
The promise was embodied in the 2020 NDC manifesto called: ‘The People’s Manifesto’.
Meanwhile, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said, “You don’t want to finish graduate school and then start riding in Okada,” insisting: “You can have a better option and we will give you a better option.”
Dr Bawumia said that the Akufo-Addo government’s proposal to introduce a flexible vehicle leasing scheme for commercial drivers is a safer and better option than legalizing the use of motorcycles for commercial passenger services (Okada) in Ghana.
The 2020 nuclear power plant manifesto has committed to introducing a new transport financing scheme called the Transport Sector Recapitalization Policy, which will help commercial drivers own new vehicles that are assembled in Ghana through flexible lease terms. .
In shedding more light on the scheme and former President John Mahama’s controversial decision to legalize Okada’s business at a strategic partnership signing ceremony between VW and Black Ivy in Accra on Wednesday, Dr. Bawumia announced that instead of the government will legalize Okada’s “risky” operations, the government offers a “better and safer” option for Okada owners to upgrade vehicle owners through the Transportation Recapitalization Program.
“There has been a recent discussion about Okada, this motorcycle transport.
“I think in the context of what we are doing, we will rather encourage Okada passengers to come and try to lease these vehicles so they can run business,” said Dr. Bawumia, referring to the new VW cars that are being sold. have joined in Ghana.
“In the Recapitalization of the Transportation Sector project, what we are proposing is that the government get in the way to provide support to our drivers; taxis, cars and buses to be able to lease essentially these new vehicles that are being manufactured in Ghana ”.
The vice president noted that after careful consideration by the government, he has decided not to legalize Okada’s business in the interests of Ghanaians because it represents a significant risk.
He urged Okada owners and passengers to consider their safety and instead see a bigger and safer option in the nuclear power plant’s transportation recapitalization policy, through which, he said, they can lease new vehicles with their national identification cards and digital address system.
“They need to graduate from this risky and less safe Okada to a safer mode of transportation.”
“Your problem will be the lack of capital, but if you bring a new leasing policy and we have our national identification cards with our digital address system, etc., we can have a credit system working and give you an option, different from this one. risky business. “
“Let’s give them the opportunity to lease safer vehicles and pay over time. I think it is a better option than the alternative thinks ”.
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