The Managing Director of White Dove Hotel, Dzodze in the Volta Region, Prince Ahiadzro has expressed concern about the indiscriminate use of motor bikes for commercial purposes in the Dzodze township and called on the police and other security agencies to clamp down on perpetrators. He said the use of such unlicensed motor bikes pose a lot of danger to the citizenry who patronize them as they shuttle between Dzodze and the border towns in the Ketu district. The hotelier wondered what the police were doing when those motor bike riders paraded in front of the Dzodze Police Station to ply their trade as they infringe upon the law with impunity. Mr Ahiadzro said as far as he was aware, the road traffic regulations had not been amended to allow the motor bikes to be used for commercial purposes. The law therefore should be rigidly enforced for people to know that Ghana was not a lawless country. He said that there was gross lawlessness and indiscipline generally in the Dzodze township and if the people did not want to respect authority, at least they ought to know and understand that the Volta Regional Minister, Kofi Dzamesi hailed from the town and that alone should have encouraged them to set good examples and do the right things for strangers to follow. Investigations by the Heritage proved that the motor bikes that were being used for the illegal commercial transportation all bore Togolese registration numbers. Though the bikes were manufactured to carry only one person, the offending riders most often carried two other passengers by charging 15,000 cedis from Dzodze to Noepe. Dzodze to Akanu attracted 20,000 cedis and from Dzodze to any other village within a radius of less than one kilometer fetched them an amount of 7,000 cedis per passenger. There were indications that many of these motor bikes were owned by policemen at the Dzodze Police Station and CEPS officials at Akanu Border Post. The Medical Officer in charge of St Anthony Hospital, Dr Sodzi Sodzi Tettey when contacted said, statistics showed that there was a daily rate of motor accidents involving the motor riders who were mostly Togolese and their victims Ghanaian traders as well as residents from Dzodze and its environs. He said, it was an eyesore to see many people continued to patronize the illegal business without any remorse and that situation had disrupted the operations of taxi drivers in the area because of the swift nature that patrons enjoyed the services of the riders. The Regional Co-ordinator of the National Road Safety Commission, Elvis Gbesemate when quizzed blamed the police for the indiscipline and blatant breach of the nation’s road traffic regulations. He said the law enforcement agencies could not continue to undermine the nation’s statutes when they were aware of the rate of road accidents. He therefore charged them to do their best to ensure that enforcement and compliance of the laws were made supreme in the interest of the nation. Source: The Heritage