The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Daniel Nii Kwartei Titus-Glover, has made it clear that the 25,000 street lights planned for installation will not be for highways, but are meant for communities throughout the region.
This clarification follows the minister’s previous comments, made on August 6 at the Regional Townhall Meeting organised by the Information Ministry at GNAT Hall in Accra, in which he implied that the street lights were intended for the nation’s inadequately lit highways.
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Now, though, the Minister has made it clear that the current initiative would concentrate more on putting street lights in local communities than on main roads.
“These streetlights are not the normal highway lights, it is within the communities.
They are different lights from what we have on highways. So that will take another level, to look at it holistically.
But for now, what we have distributed is meant for the communities where there are no lights, and visibility is poor because of the absence of these lights, that has been the focus.
“When it comes to highway one, that’s a different thing we want to look at, through the traffic light matter.”
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The initiative comes on the back of backlash from residents in the capital about the dark streets in Accra.
The minister also added that there are plans to fix street lights on highways in the city.
