One of the 45 drivers arrested by the Tema community one police in collaboration with the Tema Metropolitan Assembly TMA has hinted that he once drove a vehicle owned by a police officer with an expired road-worthy for over six months without any arrest by the MTTD.
This came to light when some aggrieved drivers in the Tema Metropolis expressed their displeasure on Plan B FM’s late afternoon show EBAANOSEN, hosted by Ohene Kinnah, over the arrest of about 45 vehicles by the police, TMA, and some GPRTU station masters, that they have been picking passengers on unauthorized places in the metropolis.
According to them, when they pick up a passenger on the roadside or at a bus stop the officers from both TMA and MTTD will arrest you unless they pay Ghs 500 as a spot fine before their vehicles are released to them but those who couldn’t afford the money still have their cars in the custody of the police.
“We don’t understand why they are doing this to us, because we haven’t violated any road traffic rules but they keep arresting us. We were told that some of the station masters are complaining that, passengers don’t come to their stations to board vehicles as expected which is why they are apprehending us, but the issue is not everyone can go to the station to board a car because some of the passengers live far away from the station but passengers hired us to the stations whenever they are traveling long distance, so why this intimidation” they fumed.
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