Life is not easy, it’s made of so many partings welded together. We face so many personal problems in our lives, in nursing pain, there is sorrow. The good people of North Gonja waited for something that never happened, that’s relatives or compatriots waking from their sleep in a fatal road traffic accident a week ago at Offinso-Abofour in the Ashanti Region.
A sprinter bus carrying our people was reported to have collided with a trailer from an opposite direction resulting in instant deaths and some injuries. In utter shock and dismay, the entire District went into silent mode, what a calamity? A painful loss of young active lives who refuses to give up on life and had to hussle and bustle to feed home.
Once again, leadership at the District level in the North Gonja showed true care and compassion amid pain and grave loss of productive lives from a young District. Chief Executive of the area Hon Adam Eliasu led stakeholder management of the situation with state authorities and a local team that was dispatched to the scene. The necessary stop-gap and mitigating measures have since been played out by stakeholders where the injured are receiving treatment whiles the dead ones (20) have been laid to rest.
Hon Adam Eliasu Red Bawa yesterday 09.11.2021 was at Tiemban, Somun, Tari 2, and Singa to commiserate with families of the victims and offer leadership and people of North Gonja’s support to them. He met and interacted with opinion leaders, families of victims whiles reassuring them of the commitment of the District Assembly. “We are walking with you, we’ll lend our shoulders, we’ll hold hands together throughout this painful journey of loss” ~ Hon Adam Eliasu – DCE.
Every year the lives of approximately 1.3 million people are cut short as a result of a road traffic crash, between 20 and 50 million more people suffer non-fatal injuries with many incurring a disability as a result of their injury (W H O). According to the Motor Traffic and Transport Department of the Ghana Police Service, provisional data compiled revealed the number of commuters killed in road traffic crashes for the first 9 months of the year 2021 rose by 16.37% compared to the same period last year. It increased from 1,827 between January and September 2020 to 2,126 in the first 9 months of this year.
Road traffic accidents cause considerable economic losses for individuals, their families, and nations. May their souls Rest In Peace. God Bless North Gonja And Make Us Great And Strong.
