At last, the menace of motorist sharing roads with tricycles, popularly known as Pragyia or Aboboya on highways and some principal streets in the central business district, thereby causing persistent traffic congestions and disorderly scenes, which has given rise to indiscriminate parking and disregard for traffic regulation would be no more.
The Greater Accra Regional Co-ordinating Council (GARCC), effective immediately, has has banned the operations of ‘Pragyia’ and ‘Aboboyaa’ in the Central Business Districts (CBD) of Accra Metropolitan, Krowor, Korle Klottey, Tema Metropolitan, La Dade Kotopon, La Nkwantanang Madina, Ayawaso East, Ayawaso West, Ayawaso Central, Ayawaso North, Ledzokuku, Okaikwei North’ in an effort to mitigate traffic congestion and restore orderliness to the streets of Accra.
Perhaps taking a cue from the recent chaotic fracas between the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly and the tricycle riders in Kejetia, the central business district in the Ashanti region, GARCC charged “Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives and their Presiding Members to ensure that all Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) sensitize the public and subsequently pass a bye-law to promote the implementation of the resolutions.”
GARCC has also banned the use of party paraphernalia during festivals in the region directing that there should be no hoisting of flags and the wearing of party attires, among others.
The decision to restrict the operation of the tricycle, according to the Greater Accra regional minister, Henry Quartey, in a statement he signed(published) was arrived at, at its general meeting held on Monday, 14th August, 2023.
“The council has therefore resolved as follows:
- A restriction on the movement of “Pragyia” and “Aboboyaa” in the Central
Business Districts (CBD) of Accra Metropolitan, Krowor, Korle Klottey, Tema
Metropolitan, La Dade Kotopon, La Nkwantanang Madina, Ayawaso East,
Ayawaso West, Ayawaso Central, Ayawaso North, Ledzokuku, Okaikwei North
and Adentan Municipal;
- To reinforce the ban on the use of “Aboboyaa” on the Motorway and Principal
Streets in the region; and
- A ban on the use of party paraphernalia during festivals in the region (no
hoisting of flags, no wearing of party attires among others);” the statement asserted.