MoE spokesperson proposes for school buses to be painted yellow
The Deputy Public Relations Officer (PRO) for the Ministry of Education (MoE), Yaw Opoku Mensah citing yellow colour as sensitive to the human eye has proposed for school buses in the country to be painted with yellow colour.
In a social media post sighted by Pretertiary.com, the MoE spokesman said eye sensitive colour school buses can be easily spotted by other drivers around and a safe distance can be maintained to ensure the safety of children.
He therefore has called on the management of the National Schools Inspection Authority (NaSIA) under the auspices of the Ministry of Education to consider making schools adopt a colour-sensitive to the eye for their buses.
“School buses are painted with yellow colour because our eyes are mostly sensitive to yellow colour. So, school buses can be easily spotted by other drivers around and a safe distance can be maintained to ensure the safety of children.
Can our school buses here adopt a colour-sensitive to the eye if not yellow for our kids? National Schools Inspection Authority, can something be done about it?” the Ministry of Education (MoE) spokesperson stated.
In other news, the Ghana Association of Private Schools (GNAPS) has endorsed the National Road Safety Authority initiative to register school bus operations and conduct routine inspections to ensure service quality while advancing the welfare of school children.
GNAPS endorsement comes after the Authority at an engagement in Accra with some stakeholders within the education sector, highlighted the operational or quality gaps in some of the buses used for the transportation of school children.
The Ag. Director-General of the Authority, Ing. David Osafo Adonteng, announced that the registration of the school bus services would be carried out electronically through a self-help web-based application known as TransportGhana.
As the Road Authority embraced technology in its operations, he said effective March all schools with bus operations will be required to access the platform on www.transportghana.com.gh to complete the free registration process.
In her response, the Chairperson of the Association of Private Schools, Dr Aisha Asi Akrofi, commended the Authority for the initiative and expressed the commitment of the Association to support the registration and regulatory framework.
She explained that the association is equally concerned about the welfare of the school children and will work with the Authority to sensitize its members to the new regulatory requirements for school bus services.
The National Road Safety Authority Regulations, 2022 require that school owners ensure that vehicles assigned for the service are fit for purpose, drivers are trained in the transportation of school children, provide safe areas for loading and picking up of students, ensure the presence of a responsible adult to supervise the children while the vehicles should be marked as carrying or transporting school children to ensure the necessary courtesies in traffic.
