‘I never said people criticizing mandatory towing fee are narrow-minded’ – Osei Owusu

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Kofi 6 years ago

The owner of the car should be responsible for the fee as its done in USA

The owner of the car should be responsible for the fee as its done in USA
The sword 6 years ago

If osei wusu want to know the shallow minded people in this country , it is they the MPs and the contractors who built such a poor narrow road without taking breaking vehicles into consideration. And he is one of them

If osei wusu want to know the shallow minded people in this country , it is they the MPs and the contractors who built such a poor narrow road without taking breaking vehicles into consideration. And he is one of them
Uncle Ato 6 years ago

The problem with Osei Wusu is his obsession with everything negative. It is not just criticizing that you allude to as narrow-mindedness but supporting that fiction is as foolish as you could ever be as a legislator. Just le ...
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The problem with Osei Wusu is his obsession with everything negative. It is not just criticizing that you allude to as narrow-mindedness but supporting that fiction is as foolish as you could ever be as a legislator. Just learn from other countries how it works and works well, other than this stupid law enjoining every tom dick and harry to pay up for no service rendered. Why can't you think??
Kofious 6 years ago

Thanks uncle Ato. Some of our legislators just don't apply common sense.

Thanks uncle Ato. Some of our legislators just don't apply common sense.
Kofious 6 years ago

Shallow minded statesman.
Common sense should tell you the owner of the vehicle which has been towed should pay services and not every vehicle owner.

Shallow minded statesman.
Common sense should tell you the owner of the vehicle which has been towed should pay services and not every vehicle owner.
Poundsman 6 years ago

This MP just speaks like an idiot, what if the car owner has a towing vehicle??. Last week he said NDC mp's were poor in parliament whereas you have uneducated NPP as MP who barely speaks any English let alone read and write. ...
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This MP just speaks like an idiot, what if the car owner has a towing vehicle??. Last week he said NDC mp's were poor in parliament whereas you have uneducated NPP as MP who barely speaks any English let alone read and write...what an over rated biased hypocrite.
GHANA FORAY 6 years ago

Continue in your ignorance and arrogance. Insult us. 2020 is just around the Conner. Idiot!

Continue in your ignorance and arrogance. Insult us. 2020 is just around the Conner. Idiot!
Akora 6 years ago

Nsem pii

Nsem pii
Nana 6 years ago

The new policy is bad an indefensible. The DVLA boss is said to lived in US but apparently did learn anything about it is done here. He should also the new License program toll the National ID program is completed and he will ...
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The new policy is bad an indefensible. The DVLA boss is said to lived in US but apparently did learn anything about it is done here. He should also the new License program toll the National ID program is completed and he will find the Drivers Licence can be ISSUED THE SAME DAY and not 2 weeks.
The sword 6 years ago

Any criminal can go to parliament and start talking rubbish to the people as if making sense.
The broader picture of the issue is towing is not practise as andatory in any sensible thinking country, it is a an insurance pa ...
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Any criminal can go to parliament and start talking rubbish to the people as if making sense.
The broader picture of the issue is towing is not practise as andatory in any sensible thinking country, it is a an insurance package in in the premium or there must be a towing club which motorist may have a free hand to choose and join.
You cannot make it mandatory under dvla that is senseless or you are misapplying the powers given to you to rip the people off.
The same apply to the change of the drivers license, the reason given is the most useless to be heard from a policy maker
Kwame 6 years ago

Why do we some foolish legislatures making stupid and sensless laws and policies for us. God have mercy

Why do we some foolish legislatures making stupid and sensless laws and policies for us. God have mercy
NKF 6 years ago

You erred in justice Atubiga retirement year. Why can't u erred here mister chairman. Continue with ya ignorance erring

You erred in justice Atubiga retirement year. Why can't u erred here mister chairman. Continue with ya ignorance erring
Kwame Danpare 6 years ago

This towing levy is crap and anyone with white matter between his ears knows this. This is just a create, loot and share scheme if it ever succeeds in this format. What stops the police who are mandated by law to remove broke ...
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This towing levy is crap and anyone with white matter between his ears knows this. This is just a create, loot and share scheme if it ever succeeds in this format. What stops the police who are mandated by law to remove broken down vehicles, to simply outsource towing to companies with the capacity to deliver such a service. In the end the Police can simply enter into revenue sharing agreements with such companies with the added advantage of pinalising poor performing towing companies if they do not meet agreed SLA targets. This is basic, but because a twisted few have taken incentives from a certain tycoon, we now have officers of the state running from media house to media house trying to promote or defend this reprehensible scheme. Enforcement if done properly, especially in such an indisciplined country like Ghana, is a huge revenue earner for the government and service contractors alike. The only problem here is greed blinds the brains of our technocrats, hence this useless rip off scheme. I am so ashamed to think peoples fathers and mothers sat in meetings for years to come up with such a lame scheme, when many good examples are littered across the world? I am highly disappointed. Ghana paaa niee?
yabs 6 years ago

OSIE

OSIE
PAUL GBAGBLADZA 6 years ago

Bloody scoundrel as deputy speaker. Stupid fool. A thief. A bloody scoundrel. A known thief when he was with DVLA. THIEF

Bloody scoundrel as deputy speaker. Stupid fool. A thief. A bloody scoundrel. A known thief when he was with DVLA. THIEF
Prince Charles 6 years ago

Educated illiterates, thieves in suits. If not because of corruption, this legislation would not even have come to the floor, because it is a clever way to steal from vehicle owners. If there are 2 million vehicles on the r ...
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Educated illiterates, thieves in suits. If not because of corruption, this legislation would not even have come to the floor, because it is a clever way to steal from vehicle owners. If there are 2 million vehicles on the roads in Ghana and every car pays C100, that will be C200 million which will just go to line some private pockets. How many vehicles out of the 2 million will break down in a year? God will punish you all for trying to be worse than armed robbers.
asem 6 years ago

this people claim they are educated but they lack common sense. Ghana's illiteracy rate is about 90%. People need to be educated when a new policy is about to be implemented. This are the same illiterates who voted you into p ...
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this people claim they are educated but they lack common sense. Ghana's illiteracy rate is about 90%. People need to be educated when a new policy is about to be implemented. This are the same illiterates who voted you into power then you later insult them? how educated are you in the same place? this NPP guys talk as if they know something. What do they know? job for the boys, destroying our country with this ignorant men called "learned".
Sweet Ghana 6 years ago

These days anyone sharing a divergent view is either incompetent, narrow minded or is advised to read as if we all didn't attend mostly the same public schools and universities in Ghana.The only difference being that in some ...
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These days anyone sharing a divergent view is either incompetent, narrow minded or is advised to read as if we all didn't attend mostly the same public schools and universities in Ghana.The only difference being that in some cases, some, by dint of the political ties their birth landed them into, were privileged to further their education in foreign lands at the tax payer's expense.A typical case is that of Bawumia, whose father at one time,served as the CEO of the lucrative COCOBOB,then an Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and finally Chairman of the Council of State.Please,let's learn,as a people and especially, legislators, to respect divergent views and when such statements that seeks to run down others of spew out from them that have enjoyed from the largesse of the nation, it's like rubbing salt into an injury.
Sweet Ghana 6 years ago

others spew....

others spew....
Yaw Ben 6 years ago

Is the company for govt? Or they want to make free effortless money for some NPP financier. Every year they make cool cash without sweat. Whilst other businesses are struggling to make business work. I will pay commercial rat ...
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Is the company for govt? Or they want to make free effortless money for some NPP financier. Every year they make cool cash without sweat. Whilst other businesses are struggling to make business work. I will pay commercial rate if my car breaks down on the road. Also, they shouldn't insult our sensibility. Ghana is watching them.
Me 6 years ago

Go and pay your bar dues... ofui

Go and pay your bar dues... ofui
Ed Adjei 6 years ago

Most of these disabled vehicles on our roads are the big trucks owned by millionaires(Ghanaian standards) who should be able to pay the towing fee instead of loosing the truck. Why shpuld the poor taxi or private car owner pa ...
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Most of these disabled vehicles on our roads are the big trucks owned by millionaires(Ghanaian standards) who should be able to pay the towing fee instead of loosing the truck. Why shpuld the poor taxi or private car owner pay for such services. It's never done in US or anywhere under the globe. The Police should supervise the towing to a demarcated place by a towing company for the owner to settle the towing cost before It's released, period.
Asibi 6 years ago

Credible companies should be mandated by the government in every district with a pool of towing cars,so that when a car breaks down, the company's number is called immediately to come and tow the car to where the owner wants ...
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Credible companies should be mandated by the government in every district with a pool of towing cars,so that when a car breaks down, the company's number is called immediately to come and tow the car to where the owner wants it to be at a fee paid by the owner.period.no two ways about that
Ay 6 years ago

millionaires(Ghanaian standards) who should be able to pay the towing fee instead of loosing the truck. Why shpuld the poor taxi or private car owner pay for such services. It's never done in US or anywhere under the globe. T ...
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millionaires(Ghanaian standards) who should be able to pay the towing fee instead of loosing the truck. Why shpuld the poor taxi or private car owner pay for such services. It's never done in US or anywhere under the globe. The Police should supervise the towing to a demarcated place by a towing company for the owner to settle the towing cost before It's released, period.
NAtTIVE 6 years ago

Hon. Osei Owusu you look intelligent but you come across on occasion as " Swiss cheese ? I don't understand why you seem to court controversy most of the time? Hardly do we hear your senior colleagues on the majority side ...
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Hon. Osei Owusu you look intelligent but you come across on occasion as " Swiss cheese ? I don't understand why you seem to court controversy most of the time? Hardly do we hear your senior colleagues on the majority side courting ridicule from idiotic utterances? The mike as they say is always hot?
Regarding the issue of removal of disabled vehicles on the roads, your arguments and support for this levy is unfortunate. Why do you and most legislators think money is the only solution to problems? Where is individual and institutional accountability and responsibility? We already have laws on the books, regarding the issue. Why are they not being implemented? This lazy man's solution of passing the problem off to someone hoping the problem will go away is very sad. Hon. Osei Owusu you've lived outside the country, run the DVLA and know the best practices of options used to solve the problem in other jurisdictions? The best practices places the primary responsibility and accountability and risk management on individual vehicle owners.. The driver who runs into an object on the road is equally responsible for their unfortunate situation as the one who illegally left the vehicle on the road. Driving is a defensive effort but a lot of our drivers driving behaviors are mostly too dengerous for conditions. Speeding and overtaking are the norm on our roads and the security service responsible to check them are not willing to do their jobs and some are apt to collect bribes and let unacceptable behavior go? The institutional insurance pool idea to pass the problem to one private entity is myopic. Individuals by law must secure private towing insurance and institutions like Road Saftey commission, and District assemblies and the Police must implement existing laws, contract individual towing companies and facilities for towed vehicles. Individuals must be made accountable and responsible for the privilege to own and operate a moving vehicle. And that include the responsibility of not running into objects on the road. The institutional insurance pool idea is a poor way to pass the buck. The Road Safety commission should not be in the business of creating insurance pools and sharing the money from the pool. Their job is to institute enabling road saftey conditions and helping enact and enforce legal regimes concerning road safety thereof!
Group financial responsibility and accountability is not the solution. Individuals and institutions are!!
kay 6 years ago

Moto bike to attract towing fee? Some one should tell me if he's ever seen a motto bike spoil and packed by the road side that needs to be rowed by a towing vehicle . Eiiiii hmmmmm chop chop

Moto bike to attract towing fee? Some one should tell me if he's ever seen a motto bike spoil and packed by the road side that needs to be rowed by a towing vehicle . Eiiiii hmmmmm chop chop
Nana Lee,Germany 6 years ago

YOU CAN'NT DECIDE FOR US.IT SEEMS YOU HAVE A SHARE IN THE DEAL.I'M SORRY TO BE AN NPP MAN AT THIS POINT OF TIME !!!

YOU CAN'NT DECIDE FOR US.IT SEEMS YOU HAVE A SHARE IN THE DEAL.I'M SORRY TO BE AN NPP MAN AT THIS POINT OF TIME !!!
ROGUE LAWYER 6 years ago

IT IS A MATTER OF THE WHOLE npp ; tHE GUY CALLED osei wusu , is growing arrogance tentacles which need to be prune out .we must blame this corrupt crops of MPs who shielded him at the ayariga corrupt gate

IT IS A MATTER OF THE WHOLE npp ; tHE GUY CALLED osei wusu , is growing arrogance tentacles which need to be prune out .we must blame this corrupt crops of MPs who shielded him at the ayariga corrupt gate
JH New York. 6 years ago

The present policy is not deterrent,in my personal opinion. Officials should endevour to take decisions which could stand the test of time and,not to go back to 1471 San Diego de Azanbuza era banana republic "wholesale" gover ...
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The present policy is not deterrent,in my personal opinion. Officials should endevour to take decisions which could stand the test of time and,not to go back to 1471 San Diego de Azanbuza era banana republic "wholesale" governance policies.In Civilised Societies, the one who caused the obstruction or wrong park, is the one liable to pay Towing Fee. Simple. Ghana must move forward. Those Cocoa-ase policies must Stop. The legislature should back the Police or Motor Transport Police or whoever has won the Contract with strong Laws to resolve the problem. eg.(1).to be contd.

‘I never said people criticizing mandatory towing fee are narrow-minded’ – Osei Owusu

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