The Ghana Chamber of Clean Energy, GCCE, has welcomed the passage of the Road Traffic Amendment Bill, 2025.

It has described the move as a major policy shift in Ghana’s transport sector and a strategic opportunity to accelerate the deployment and local manufacturing of electric motorcycles and tricycles.

The Bill, widely known as the Okada Bill, amends the Road Traffic Act, 2004, Act 683, to legalise the commercial use of motorcycles, tricycles, and quadricycles, while introducing enhanced road safety provisions. Parliament passed the legislation under a Certificate of Urgency, citing the rapid expansion of the sector across the country and the need for regulation.

In a press statement, Founder and Executive Director of GCCE, Mr Seth Owusu-Mante, said the legalisation formally recognises a mode of transport that plays a critical role in urban mobility, informal logistics and delivery services, last mile connectivity, and employment creation, particularly in cities and peri urban areas. He noted that the move presents an opportunity to introduce structure, safety standards, and long term planning to a sector that has largely operated informally.

From a clean energy perspective, the Chamber said the Bill creates a strategic opening to fast track electric mobility solutions, especially within the two and three wheeler segment. GCCE observed that commercial motorcycles, tricycles, and quadricycles account for a growing share of vehicle kilometres travelled in Ghana’s urban centres and are largely powered by combustion engines, contributing to air pollution, public health challenges, greenhouse gas emissions, and noise pollution.

Mr Owusu-Mante stressed that formal recognition of the commercial motorcycle sector under the law provides a strong policy lever to shape its future direction. He said the sector can now be guided towards cleaner, safer, and more efficient technologies through targeted standards, incentives, and enforcement mechanisms, rather than remaining emissions intensive.

GCCE further noted that effective implementation of the Bill, particularly with deliberate support for electric motorcycles, could deliver wider benefits. These include reduced urban air pollution and associated health risks, lower operating costs for riders through reduced fuel and maintenance expenses, and job creation across assembly, maintenance, battery services, and charging infrastructure.

The Chamber added that developing a local electric mobility value chain could position Ghana as a regional hub for the manufacturing and export of electric two and three wheelers and related components to other African markets. This, it said, aligns with Ghana’s broader energy transition and economic development objectives.

GCCE said it will study the Road Traffic Amendment Bill, 2025 in detail as part of its policy and regulatory review process. It also expressed readiness to work closely with government, Parliament, regulators, metropolitan and municipal authorities, transport unions, manufacturers, financiers, and development partners to support the safe, environmentally responsible, and economically inclusive scaling of electric motorcycles, tricycles, and quadricycles in Ghana.