Taskforce arrest 12 tricycle riders for using motorway to convey refuse
The ban on tricycles which took effect on November 1, is part of a plan to have waste transfer sites in every district in the Greater Accra region by February 2022.
A joint task force of police and assembly members have arrested at least twelve tricycle riders on the Accra-Tema motorway, for defying a directive not to use the highway to cart refuse.
The Municipal Chief Executive for Ayawaso North, Mohammed Zakaria Aminu, who is also the team leader of the task force, said the tricycles would be impounded, and the riders also sanctioned.
“We have to offload the refuse, so we are moving them to the transfer stations and dump them there, and subsequently, the tricycles will be impounded,” Mr Mohammed Zakaria Aminu said.
On November 2, security officers began a patrol on the highway, to ensure that tricycles carrying waste do not ply the motorway, following the restrictions placed on them.
The Borla Taxi and Tricycle Association has however asked that city authorities provide mobile transfer sites to ensure that operators of tricycles strictly adhere to the minister’s directive.
Ghana’s Informal Waste Workers Union, whose members use tricycles for waste collection, also called on the government to provide waste compactor mobile trucks at vantage points within the Greater Accra Region before implementing the restrictions.
The ban on tricycles which took effect on November 1, is part of a plan to have waste transfer sites in every district in the Greater Accra region by February 2022. Following this, tricycles that cart refuse will be barred from using highways and major roads.
