The Secretary General of the Ghana Federation of Labour (GFL), Abraham Koomson, has called for the arrest of drivers who allow passengers to preach or engage in hawking inside their moving vehicles, insisting that the law must be strictly enforced to protect road users.
According to him, drivers have a responsibility to remain focused on the road and ensure the safety of passengers throughout their journeys.
Speaking on Ahotor FM’s Yepe Ahunu programme on Saturday, October 10, Mr Koomson said both the individuals engaging in such activities and the drivers who permit them should face the law.
“That law must work. If you preach in a moving vehicle, you must be arrested. Even the driver must be arrested, because how can a driver concentrate and focus and drive people safely to their destinations? So, the driver must be arrested too,” he said.
Mr Koomson questioned how drivers could maintain the necessary concentration behind the wheel when passengers were allowed to preach in vehicles, particularly when they came from different religious backgrounds.
He argued that such activities could distract drivers and potentially compromise the safety of passengers and other road users.
The GFL Secretary General called for the strict enforcement of Regulation 141 of the Road Traffic Regulations, 2026 (L.I. 2519), which prohibits preaching and hawking in public and commercial vehicles while they are in motion.
Under the provision cited in the debate, offenders face fines ranging from 10 to 50 penalty units, imprisonment for up to eight months, or both.
Mr Koomson maintained that enforcing the regulation would help minimise distractions in moving vehicles and promote safer journeys for both drivers and passengers.
