The Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has directed Road Safety Management Authority (RSMA) and the Motor Transport and Traffic Directorate (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service to arrest anyone using his stickers to flout traffic regulations in the country.
The Asantehene who is displeased with increasing road fatalities and indiscipline among private and commercial vehicle drivers directed the security agencies to arrest any Chief or person who flout the road safety regulation irrespective of the person status in the country.
Otumfuo gave the directive order over the weekend when personnel from the Road Safety Management Authority paid a curtesy call on him at Manhyia Palace.
He said” it has come to my attention that Nananom are part of indiscipline vehicular driving in the region. The police and road safety officials are afraid to arrest them because they have my photo and Manhyia stickers embossed on their cars. Note that my sticker is not a licenses and I have not directed anybody to use my sticker as a driving licence for which reason they feel big to stop at police check points’’ he said.
He noted that chiefs are also part of the larger society who need to observe every traffic regulation, adding that he has not directed any Police officer not to arrest people who embossed their cars with his sticker.
“I haven’t issued out any paper to you that my sticker is a licenses so do your work. If you see any chief driving without insurance simply arrest him nothing more.’’ He added’’ I don’t have any sticker embossed on my car therefore, if you arrest a person and the persons says he is from Manhyia because my picture is embossed on his, bring him to the palace and let see if that car is mine’’.
