Bono East Regional Minister, Kofi Amoakohene has called for more education on road safety for drivers in order to reduce the level of carnage on Ghana’s roads.

The Minister bemoaned that, coupled with poor road systems, little is being done to sensitize drivers on road safety regulations.

“Ghana is a developing nation without the sufficiency and everything. Even outside the country, the stops (digital checkpoints among others internally built) are there but there is still regulation that allows people to drive.”

“We need to educate them [drivers] because where this particular accident occurred…is the nicest roads that we have,” he said, in an interview with Joy News.

His comments follow a fatal accident fatal crash at Kawampe in the Kintampo North Municipality of the Bono East Region, on Monday Dawn which saw the demise of at least 30 people. Most of the bodies were burnt beyond recognition and that the dead include a pregnant woman.

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According to eyewitnesses, a Yutong bus veered off into the opposite lane when its driver fell asleep behind the wheel.

The driver of the approaching Sprinter vehicle, according to reports tried to avoid the collision by heading for the bush but collided with the bus, leading to the accident.

Commenting on what government is doing to reduce the occurence of such incidents, the MP said, “We are developing and are yet to get to those places."

He is concerned though that "You could set the rules but who sits to check them?”

Mr Amoakohene also added that the driving profession contextually does not attract people with “some much higher IQs”.