Kwaku Ofori Asiamah…

Ahead of your turn at the “Meet the Press” series, I hope you will search your conscience and come with a contrite heart rather than coming to deliver a speech written by “the special advisor to the Transport Minister?”

Of course, by now you may have been well-prepped on how to answer all of our queries, so I do expect you to sail through the interaction smoothly but to what end?

What does it mean to me if you come to say “we have made a lot of strides in the sector” but I am still late to work, not because I did not wake up early but because of the abysmal public transport system?

What do your strides mean to me if after I close from work, I have to stand at Kwame Nkrumah Circle for an hour fighting with other members of the workforce just to sit in a sorry looking “troski” that is going to tear my trousers anyway?

Yes! Fighting, not struggling, if I do not fight the others, I will be there for more than two hours.

Kwaku, what do your strides mean to me if the Ayalolo buses that my tax purchased continue to rot while I suffer to be transported to and from work?

Well, of course, you can blame the previous government for that one and you will be right but only if it were two years ago -- when you had just assumed office.

Seeing that you have been drawing salaries for more than two years, I am afraid I am unable to exonerate you from my concerns with the grounded buses.

You are to blame, yes you are! If it were salaries for your officers which were blocked, it would have been resolved, so citing the mess of the previous government to exonerate yourself would not cut it for me.

I do not want to bother you anymore but before I end I also want to ask why MTTD officers from the police decide they are smarter than our traffic lights.

If I remember anything from Junior High, it is a machine makes work easier and more efficient than human effort.

Why then do the men stop traffic flow when the lights are green and open it when it is red? Of course, I understand the mechanisms of traffic direction but none of the different variables are in play most times, it’s just nauseating.

Or the traffic direction do not have anything to do with Transport Ministry? Forgive me if that’s the case, the Ministries are so many it gets confusing at times.

When you meet the press on Tuesday, I sincerely hope you would present a comprehensive plan to revolutionise Ghana’s Public Transport System, because not all of us can afford private cars, not now anyway.

And I hope a bill will go to Parliament to that effect soon.

If not there is always the Ayalolo buses and from Joy News’ documentary, the buses are so many it could reach one man one bus. Lol.

I hope after a maximum of six months after your press interaction, I will not be late to work because of the transport system.

If these issues are not addressed, to me you wouldn’t have had a press interaction but merely pass excrement.

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