Transport Minister inaugurates Metro Mass Board
The Minister of Transport, Mrs Dzifa Aku Attivor, has inaugurated the Board of the Metro Mass Transit Limited (MMTL), with a call on the members to develop effective strategies to automate the operations of the company and to support management to come out with innovative measures and to reduce revenue leakages.
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The 10-member board is chaired by the Mamfehene, Osabarima Nana Ansah Sasraku III.
Other board members
The other board members are Mr Noble Appiah, Managing Director of MMTL; Mr Ellis Hugh-Tamakloe, Ministry of Transport; Joseph Okine-Afranie, Prudential Bank; Robert K. Darko, Agricultural Development Bank; Ms Sheila Mavis Sampson, Social Security and National Insurance Trust; Patrick A.K. Akorli, Ghana Oil Company Limited; Yaw Asokwa Nkansah, State Insurance Company Limited; and Mr Patrick Tei Kwapong of National Investment Bank.
Procurement of buses
Mrs Attivor urged the new board and the management of the company to continue investing in the procurement of buses to reduce the burden on government and its shareholders.
She said the board should continue with the policy of free ride for school children and the aged as well.
The transport minister expressed concern about road safety and the rate at which some MMT drivers were involved in road traffic accidents and made a passionate appeal to the board to institute measures to educate and retrain drivers in order to reduce the carnage.
She emphasised that the unfortunate practices in some instances in the past, where some board members virtually took over management, should be avoided and entreated the board and management to work as a team to realise the objective of the company.
Osabarima Sasraku said with the rising cost of fuel and the increasing number of vehicles plying the roads, coupled with the attendant road traffic congestion and environmental pollution, it made economic and social sense for an efficient public transport system to be developed to address those challenges.
