Following the gory accident which claimed about 60 lives on the Techiman-Kintampo highway, a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Odododiodoo constituency, Hon Edwin Nii Lantey Vanderpuye has said all one-door buses must be removed from our roads to prevent future accidents.

According to Mr Vanderpuye, it makes no sense for a bus carrying about 30 passengers to have only one door.

"There must be a law to regulate the buses on our roads. Even if we have to enforce it at the Parliament house, it must be done. How can you be carrying so many passengers in a bus with one door? How would they get out in times of emergency?", he said on Peace FM Friday.

More than 60 persons are reported dead in a fatal crash Friday dawn at Amoma Nkwanta near Kintampo in the  Kintampo North Municipality of the Bono East Region, along the main Kintampo-Tamale Highway.

Brong Ahafo Regional Commander for the Motor Traffic and Transport Department [MTTD] of the Ghana police service, Superintendent Stella Sedame confirmed that a VVIP Kia bus with registration number GT 3915- 17  from Garu in the Upper East Region heading towards Kumasi collided with a Grandbird bus with registration number GT 5694-18 from Accra which was heading towards Bolgantaga also in the Upper East Region.

Sup Sedame disclosed that many of the passengers on board the bus which was en route from Garu and bound for Kumasi have been burnt beyond recognition when the vehicle went up in flames soon after the crash.

According to her, the other bus, branded VVIP and painted red, veered into a ditch after the collision, killing dozens on board.

She could not immediately establish the exact number of dead passengers, but we are afraid the toll will rise.

Source: Ghanaguardian.com