Mahama’s Baptism Of Fire … As GPRTU, Other Unions Threaten To Strike On Monday

Concerned Drivers Association of Ghana (CDAG) have threatened a nationwide strike action if provisions of the Road Traffic Regulations Act, 2012, which prohibits trading on roads, pavements and at designated bus stops are not enforced.

The Commercial transport operators have threatened to embark on industrial strike action on Monday, May 19, 2025 if “concrete steps” are not taken to enforce the traffic regulation.

The Deputy Secretary of CDAG, Asonaba Nana Wiredu, who disclosed this intention on Tuesday, May 13, 2025 has urged the government to take steps to enforce the provisions of the Act.

The strike, which is spearheaded by Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU), CDAG and the True Drivers’ Union seeks to address the need for designated parking spaces within the various Central Business Districts (CBD) across the nation.

Asonaba Nana Wiredu, in an interview yesterday, with a Kumasi-based radio station, Otec FM,

said the focal point of their concerns was the Sub-regulation 117 of the Act.

It states explicitly states that, “A person shall not sell, display, offer for sale or deliver under a sale, goods on or alongside a road; on a pedestrian walkway; within thirty metres of a railway level crossing; under a road traffic sign denoting a blind corner or rise on; within an intersection; or on or alongside a road including a toll booth and a plaza”.

The offence attracts a charge of either 50 penalty unit (GHC12 per unit) or not more than three months sentence, or both.

Nana Wiredu noted that despite the provisions of the law, authorities have failed to enforce it, allowing widespread disregard of the regulation, which ongoing violation of the law is putting both drivers and passengers at risk.

The Deputy Scribe noted that a vehicle is a “mechanical unit” that can develop a fault at any given time, resulting in the driver losing control and running over pedestrians, adding that this negligence of the law has led to unsafe road conditions and worsened traffic congestion in many parts of the country.

He also noted that new markets being developed and developed, do not factor in designated parking spaces for vehicles.

In the face of the concerns raised, Asonaba Nana Wiredu has urged the Ghana Police and the government to enforce the law and take decisive action against traders who flout these regulations to facilitate the easy movement of vehicles within various CBDs to avoid accidents from human error.

He stressed that if authorities fail to address their concerns, the aggrieved transport unions will proceed on the industrial action strike as scheduled.

From Oswald Pius Freiku, Kumasi

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