Head of Operations of the Forestry Commission, Charles Owusu has noted that the promise by former president John Dramani Mahama to legalise Okada will not solve the country’s problems because people are already riding motor bikes.
According to him, there has never been any law that has prohibited people from riding motor bikes or taking additional persons to join them on the bike therefore the former president’s promise is no news.
He explained it is rather the use of unregistered motorbikes that has been banned.
”Who has been arrested and prosecuted in the law court for riding okada without a licence? I don’t know of any law that says that if you have a motorbike, you can’t allow someone to sit at your back seat for us to legalize it,” he said.
“They must rather be educated to note that if you have a motorbike and get into traffic, you don’t have the licence to cross. If you have a motorbike, it doesn’t mean you can use a one way and face incoming vehicles. Riding a motorbike doesn’t mean you can misconduct yourself”.
”Legalizing okada can’t solve Ghana’s problems. People already ride motorbikes in the country; this is no news”, he said on Peace FM’s morning programme ‘Kokrokoo’.
Source: GhanaFeed.com