Court imposes GH¢33,500 fine on 50 motorcyclists

Fifty motorcyclists who were arrested for various traffic offences in the Accra metropolis, have been convicted to a total fine of GH¢33,500.00 by the Accra Motor Courts.

The convicts were amongst 100 suspects, who were grabbed last month, for riding on the shoulders of the road, and riding through red lights.

The Commanding Officer of the Central Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (C/MTTU) Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Anderson Fosu-Ackaah, who confirmed the story to the Ghanaian Times in Accra yesterday, said one person was cautioned and discharged, 10 others were still under investigations and 39 issued with warning letters.

The Commanding Officer said the exercise to arrest recalcitrant motorcyclists would continue, and cautioned them to obey traffic rules to ensure sanity on the roads.

ACP Fosu-Ackaah called on journalists to collaborate with the police in bringing sanity on the roads.

It would be recalled that the Ghanaian Times in its Wednesday, August 21, 2019 issue, reported that 100 motorcycles were impounded by the police in a special operation in the metropolis.

The riders of the motorcycles were arrested for riding through red light and riding on the shoulders and pavements of the roads.

The exercise, which was conducted in the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange, Kinbu, Makola, TUC traffic lights and Graphic Road was to ensure sanity on the roads.

BY ANITA NYARKO YIRENKYI