2026 Transport Crisis in Accra: Ghana’s Public Transport Fails Citizens скачать в хорошем качестве

2026 Transport Crisis in Accra: Ghana’s Public Transport Fails Citizens

Late last year, the government, through the Ministry of Transport, acknowledged the problem, identified key routes, and deployed buses during peak hours, and for a brief moment, commuters felt relief and saw that intervention was possible. Then, without explanation, without transition, and without any visible alternative, those buses disappeared, the intervention was abandoned, and the authorities went to sleep, leaving the problem to return in an even more vicious and chaotic form. So the unavoidable question, Fellow Ghanaians, is whether the Ministry of Transport truly wants to look citizens in the face and say there is no solution to a problem that was partially solved just months ago, or whether the suffering of commuters has simply ceased to be a priority. Are Ghanaians now expected to accept that waiting for hours to get to work and hours more to return home is the new normal, that exhaustion is a civic duty, and that punctuality and productivity are luxuries reserved for those who can afford private cars. The absurdity of this crisis is compounded by the fact that the state already owns buses, hundreds of them, including Aayalolo buses that are currently parked, deteriorating, and wasting away, assets bought with public money, now rotting in yards while citizens queue endlessly on the streets. If these buses are faulty, fix them, if they require maintenance, service them, if they need drivers, recruit and train them, and then deploy them aggressively, consistently, and visibly, not as a public relations exercise, but as a sustained public service. This is not complicated engineering, it is basic governance, because when you have assets and a clear public need, the failure to connect the two is not a technical problem, it is a leadership problem. #JoyPrime