Participants at the workshop
Diageo Plc, through its subsidiary Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL), the leading total beverage business in Ghana, in collaboration with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), has organized a two-day workshop aimed at promoting road safety and sustainable transport systems in Ghana.
The workshop brought together key stakeholders, who play a part in developing transport systems and promoting road safety in Ghana, including the Ministry of Transport, National Road Safety Commission (NRSC), Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), Ghanaian and international experts, law enforcement officials, among others.
Alex Mejia, Director, Decentralized Cooperation Programme, UNITAR said, “With the support of Diageo, we have organized four global events and five country events across Africa, Latin America and Asia. We are very proud of this partnership, which aims to improve the capacity of public and civil entities involved in road safety across the world, especially in countries with high incidence of road accidents and injuries.”
Gabriel Opoku-Asare, Corporate Relations Director for GGBL, stated that as a business, we have a strong track-record of supporting programmes and policies to address road safety and anti-drink driving.
Delivering the keynote address at the workshop, Daniel Kwartei Titus-Glover, Deputy Minister for Transport, disclosed that crash statistics from the beginning of the year to date showed an increase in road accidents and injuries, adding; “This situation is alarming and for government we believe the loss and suffering associated with road traffic deaths and injuries are preventable. With a firm political will and integrated approach which addresses vehicle, road users and the road infrastructure, our roads can be made safer.”
GGBL’s signature Road to Safety programme dubbed, ‘Twa Kwan Mmom’, now in its 4th year, is executed in partnership with relevant stakeholders in the road safety space.
To date, the programme has educated over 7,000 commercial drivers on the dangers of drink-driving across 12 major commercial terminals in the Greater Accra, Ashanti, Central, Eastern and Volta Regions.