PREACH ROAD SAFETY

Religious leaders in the country have been charged to help in preaching the importance of safety on our roads. “As religious heads you need to preach the importance of safety on the road with the same passion for the need for repentance and seeking the kingdom of God”. The Executive Director of the National Road Safety Commission Mr. Noble Appiah made these statements today in a forum with religious leaders in the country as part of the commission’s road safety week celebration in Accra. The aim of this inter-faith forum is to establish and sustain the culture of road safety and ensure that the entire religious community of Ghana participates actively in the struggle against road traffic crashes. He said the task of actualizing the culture of safety on the road is independent on the spirit of compliance of traffic regulations, care, peace, love, compassion and mutual respect which requires full participation of everybody in the country.
Mr.Appiah added that it will be useless to invest resources, incessant prayers for safety and at the end of it all lose everything due to road crash. The work that the moral general is doing on the renewal of our behavior and attitude must be complemented by our actions of tolerance and respect for each other in using the road. He appealed to the religious leaders to use their position to positively influence behaviors and attitude to promote tolerant coexistence of society.