Bagbin pledges to support campaign against road accidents

The Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon Alban S K Bagbin has pledged his unwavering commitment to the ‘road safety’ campaign to help reduce the rate of carnage on our roads due to avoidable accidents.

The Speaker noted that road traffic accidents accounted for a high percentage of all deaths recorded in the country annually.

The head of the country’s legislature, made the pledge today when a team from the Multi-Media Group paid a courtesy call on him in parliament.

The team called on the Speaker to present him with copies of it’s documentary titled ‘CRUSHED’.

The documentary, according to the ream was part of its contribution to address the increasing number of road accidents in the country.

The documentary captures chilling details of how many families have lost loved ones to road accidents.

The Speaker assured the team that he would involve Parliament in this advocacy by tasking not just the Committees of the parliament, but parliament as a whole to discuss and analyse the current road traffic challenge