The National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) has given a seven-month ultimatum to commercial road transport operators and other regulated entities to register with the authority or be prepared to face severe sanctions. Also, the authority has directed owners of floating vehicles to join a transport union or form a company and be registered to operate legally before March 31, 2025.
The Director-General of the NRSA, David Osafo Adonteng, who gave the directive in an interview with the Daily Graphic, said the move was per the regulations of the National Road Safety Regulations, 2022 (LI 2468). He stressed that the NRSA was particularly concerned about the activities of floating drivers who did not belong to any union and therefore were unregulated and difficult to monitor.
L.I 2468 requires the NRSA to keep a register of all institutions providing road transport and its related services to ensure that they operate within the law. Some of the regulated entities as provided for in L. I 2468 are commercial road transport operators, ride-hailing transport companies, transport departments and units of ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), transport departments and units of private companies, institutional bus service providers and tyre service centres.
Regulation 92 of L. I 2468 states: “An entity or organisation which before the coming into force of these regulations operated a road transport service for commercial purpose shall, within two years of the coming into force of these regulations, comply with these regulations.” The registration is meant to let the NRSA identify the transport entities individually and give them a license to operate.
The NRSA Director-General said given that L. I 2468 was enforceable from March 30, 2025, the NRSA had been engaging all stakeholders in the road safety sector, particularly the regulated entities, to drum home the need for them to register with the authority.
