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Minister of Tourism, Arts & Culture, Catherine Afeku, and Bice Osei Kuffour, (Obour) have announced plans to embark on a road safety awareness campaign to ensure sanity on roads and save more lives.
The two leaders revealed this at Ebony’s one-week remembrance service which was held at the St Martin’s De Porres School at Dansoman in Accra last Sunday.
Speaking at the ceremony, Madam Afeku charged players in the entertainment industry to take the lead in road safety campaigns.
“This is a rallying call for the musicians, the artistes of Ghana to come together and to make a bold statement on road safety on the lives of the precious talent and creative citizens of this country, and the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture will support you,” she said.
Obour also disclosed that MUSIGA will collaborate with the Tourism Ministry Arts & Culture and other stakeholders to ensure the success of the road safety campaign which will soon kick off.
According to him, the road safety campaign will put intense pressure on government to convert all highways in Ghana into a dual carriage in order to prevent accidents.
“Many people are losing their lives in Ghana whilst we watch on doing nothing,” Obour sadly said.
The MUSIGA boss stated that the death of Ebony has taught Ghana a bitter lesson, which every individual must wake up to in order to put pressure on politicians and government to do more for the citizens.
He mentioned that Ghanaians all over the world, especially MUSIGA executives, are alarmed after the sudden death of talented dancehall artiste, Ebony Reigns.
Ebony Reigns, born Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng, died in an accident when travelling from Sunyani to Accra. She died together with her best friend, Francisca Kuri, otherwise called Frankie, and Francis Atsu Vondee, a soldier with the Ghana Air Force, believed to be Ebony’s bodyguard.