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Ghanaian journalist Enimil Ashon had it on good authority, he wrote in the Daily Graphic on 25 November 2022, that the President of his country had thought that a new candidate applying to head the then moribund State Transport Corporation (STC) in 2017 “needed a mental examination.” The subsequent presidential decision to give the job to that very candidate, an MP called Nana Akomea, was therefore probably informed by the fact that no one else wanted it. State appointments in Ghana are often favours, allocated to friends and relatives of those in power, but having to manage the state bus company would have been more like a punishment. STC at that point had been so run down that, out of a fleet of 50 buses, 22 were permanently parked and staff were regularly on strike to demand unpaid salaries.
The Managing Director of Vivo Energy Ghana, Mr. Kader Maiga has stated that provisional statistics from the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) and the Ghana Police indicates that over 2,924 people were killed in road traffic accidents in the year 2021. He said the World health Organisation (WHO) in its…