Accra, July 17, GNA - Toptech Ghana, a transport, logistic and Security Company, has collaborated with Nana Fynn, a renowned Ghanaian musician to compose a song on road safety for Ghana and Africa.
The song titled “We Need You Alive” is composed in English and Twi and is in line with the company’s strategic plan to reduce the alarming carnage on the road.
Mr Cecil Garbrah, the Chief Executive Officer of Toptech Ghana, in an interview with GNA at a pre-launch in Accra, said the song would be launched on August 16, stressing that road safety is a collective responsibility which behoves on all to be concerned and act decisively to ameliorate the menace.
“We need to look at reducing road crashes which is enormous in this country. The song is not only meant for Ghana. We expect Nana Fynn to be the Ambassador for Africa in sensitizing the public road safety,” he said.
Mr Garbrah said the company is in talks with other stakeholders like the NGO, the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and United Nations Development Programmes to sell the idea to them for support.
Statistics on road traffic crashes from January to June 2019 indicates that a total of 6,844 road accidents were reported, involving 11,167 vehicles with casualties comprising 1,252 fatalities and 7,043 injuries.
Compared to the period in 2018, an increase of 1.47 per cent in cases was reported, 1.03 per cent increase in vehicles, 7.16 per cent decrease in pedestrian knockdowns, 3.30 per cent increase in fatalities and 15.50 per cent increase in persons injured.
Mr Garbrah said a survey he conducted on the Spintex road in Accra revealed that 70 people who ride bicycle on the stretch do not have light, which is a serious concern.
“We need to arrive alive in peace and not in pieces, it is time to check and make sure that we are our brother’s keeper by getting people to do the right thing.”
Nana Fynn was enthused to be part of the campaign because he believed that the biggest asset for the country was the human resource, which needed to be protected to harness other resources in an efficient manner.
“I was a victim of road accidents a decade ago and I saw the collaboration with Toptech Ghana as a move to contribute my quota by educating the public to be careful on the road and avoid further accidents,” he said.
He said the statistics on the road accidents was more alarming than that of Malaria or HIV/AIDS and that all hands must be on deck to curb the phenomenon.
Nana Fynn explained that the song was composed in a way that everyone can sing and dance along with the lyrics because of the need to send a message that we need everybody alive to be strong and productive to contribute effectively to national development.
“Every Ghanaians is a road user. We are the only country in the world that witnessed three Presidential convoys involved in an accident with fatalities, which is alarming and we need to increase our responsibility”.
He urged the National Road Safety Commission and the Motor Transport and Traffic Unit and other stakeholders to step-up their campaign and apply the needed sanctions to individuals who flout the laws to serve as deterrent to others.
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