Member of Parliament for Weija Gbawe, Shaib Ahmed Jerry, has raised concern over the alarming rate of accidents involving motorcycles.
Addressing Parliament on Thursday, December 11, 2025, he noted that accidents involving motorcycles occur daily and often end up being fatal.
He outlined two major causes of motorcycle accidents, stressing that they are not solely due to riding but a combination of factors.
Among them, he cited disregard for traffic rules, whether functioning or not excessive speed, and the tendency of riders to use the edges of the road, which exposes them to collisions with drivers who may not notice them in time.
The MP also highlighted other contributing factors, including billboards indiscriminately mounted without adherence to metropolitan or municipal regulations, and overgrown grass along road medians that obstruct visibility.
“They’ve also being situations that most medians, they grass they have grown to the extend that, when you are even a driver and you are unable to see the other side of the road, you may end up knocking a motor rider.
“Where billboards have also being fixed indiscriminately, without recourse to metropolitan or municipal regulations as to how they should be managed or fixed,” he said.
He urged politicians to consider measures to train and educate motorcycle riders to stay within their lanes.
“We need to even train them and educate them so that when they are on the motor bikes you will know that there are lanes for motorbikes.
“So it is up to us, as lawmakers to think about the fact that, we are not here just to ensure that a promise made during an election campaign is carried out, but we should carry it out to the levels of thinking of the welfare of our people,” he added.
Source: Christabel Opare
