President John Dramani Mahama told journalists on Thursday that crash figures will be compared month by month with last year to test TraffiTech-GH.
Speaking to the Presidential Press Corps at Jubilee House, he asked Ghanaians to bear with a system he had already defended from Antigua earlier in the week.
Fines began on Sunday, November 1. He said each new month would be set against the same month in 2025.
“I can assure you, if we bear with this TraffiTech system, when you see the results of reduction in accidents at the end of the year, because it started November 1st, we’ll do a month-to-month comparison with last year,” he said.
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“And you yourself will be surprised at the number of lives this TraffiTech system will save.”
In Antigua, he gave 1957 News a direct answer on the cost of the fines. “If it is too expensive, then don’t overspeed; that’s all, there is a solution to it.”
He put the 2025 death toll at 2,151, and said 474 of those people were pedestrians knocked down.
A large share of those pedestrian deaths, he said, were schoolchildren.
The National Road Safety Authority’s figures for 2025, published in January, are higher. They record 2,949 deaths, up 18.2 per cent from 2,494 in 2024, in 14,743 crashes.
He gave no date for the first published comparison. November, set against November 2025, is the earliest month the test can cover.
Drivers in town, including Accra, must not go above 50 kilometres an hour, he said.
“The general speed limit in any urban centre, including Accra, is 50. And so you are not supposed to go above 50.”
Only speeding is being enforced by the cameras. He said red-light jumping and illegal parking are not yet switched on, and that those modules would be added next year.
He said the transport union’s demand that bus stops be cleared first does not affect this phase. The live cameras are checking speed alone.
Lawyer Martin Kpebu has asked the police to delay the full rollout. He told JoyNews that drivers were not told clearly enough what counts as an offence, or how to challenge a ticket.
“I think the police should postpone the proper implementation. Do more simulations and more engagement to build confidence,” he said.
Action for Justice took another line in a statement dated Thursday, November 5, signed by its executive secretary, Bright Boadi.
The group said it supports the push against speeding, but not cameras that drivers cannot see coming.
“The purpose of a speed camera should be to prevent over-speeding, not to trap drivers,” it said.
It wants every camera visible, and a large warning board far enough ahead for a driver to slow down. It has asked the Roads Ministry, the MTTD and the National Road Safety Authority to put the signs up.
Police TraffiTech-GH guidance says there is no legal duty to announce a camera. A missing warning sign does not cancel the offence.
Cameras also sit in police vehicles and on tripods, the MTTD has said, so a driver cannot treat every unit as a fixed, signed post.
Commissioner of Police Grace Ansah-Akrofi, Director-General of the Public Affairs Unit, told motorists on Thursday to confirm a notice before paying anything.
A genuine text comes from the sender ID GPS-MTTD, not from an ordinary mobile number. Open the notice and match the photograph, the registration, the place, the date, and the time.
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