The Minister of Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako Atta has admitted that his department is full of “thieves” and “corrupt” individuals who help and abet haulage truck drivers who cross Ghana’s borders with loads that weigh far more than the required amount.
He said there are a lot of corrupt people, there are a lot of thieves in my own ministry. You sack them, employ new ones, and they will do worse than those earlier sacked.
He bemoaned the fact that these truckers from the neighboring nations damage Ghana’s roads by bribing their way through with their abnormally large loads and parking along the edges of the roadways.
Amoako-Attah, who was visibly furious, told journalists that while truckers are frightened to overload their cars while entering their home nations, they easily break Ghana’s regulations with impunity thanks to the complicity of port, customs, and police employees.
Mr. Amoako-Attah questioned how truckers enter the nation with excess cargo since there are axle-load centers sprinkled along the highway and at the Tema Port.
He claimed that individuals who collude with the trucks do so in exchange for bribes, but he also argued that regardless of how much money they get from such unethical behavior, they would all eventually pass away and leave everything behind, just like all other humans.
Mr Amoako-Attah also expressed disappointment in the police for looking on while the long haul truckers flout Ghana’s traffic laws with impunity.
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