Activate CCTV Cameras Installed In Accra To Curb Crime - Okoe Vanderpuije

The Former Chief Executive of the AMA, Mr. Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije has urged the government to activate CCTV cameras installed in the Accra to help fight crime in the capital. The CCTV cameras were all installed at vantage points as part of the Accra Areawide Intelligent Traffic Management System. Mr. Vanderpuije who is also the

Member of Parliament for the Ablekuma South claims the devices are currently offline several years after they were installed. When you drive through the city of Accra, you will see all these cameras that we started installing too during my term of office and continued even after I left office, all over on white poles. There are also some

in Mamprobi, Chorkor, Osu and other places, but they have not been activated, he also said in an interview on the on the Tuesday June 15, 2021. We installed these cameras throughout the city of Accra, and I am sure if you go to the scene of the incident, you will also see the cameras on the road because there are cameras all

over the Korle Bu and Jamestown and a camera would have definitely captured the bullion car and also the motorists following them somewhere around the city if they were activated too. The Accra Areawide Intelligent Traffic Management System was introduced to to help reduce traffic congestion in the capital city. The system

relies on a coordinated traffic signal system also with digitised traffic lights and a centralised control centre where all traffic signals will be monitored and controlled to improve the traffic flow, trip reliability and road safety. The legislator also claimed that the devices are offline because of a lawsuit initiated against the government

for terminating the contract with a Chinese company called the Beijing Everyway. Ghana also risks paying a hefty judgement debt for cancelling the contract. The private construction company filed a lawsuit against the Government of Ghana also in the London court of the international arbitration to demand $55 million from

Ghana for abrogating the contract. Beijing Everyway, also said prior to the cancellation of the contract, it had worked on the provision and the installation of a traffic management system. Beijing Everyway has gone to the court because the contract that was awarded to them was terminated under Nana Akufo Addo and given to

Huawei and so Ghana has been sued, and the matter is now in court. If Everyway was working on the project, all these cameras would have been activated, Vanderpuiye explained. Vanderpuije made the remarks while sharing his view on the recent robbery attack on a bullion van at Jamestown, a town in his constituency. A police officer

and a trader were shot dead by the robbers on Monday, the June 14, 2021. There have been a series of robbery incidents in Accra in particular in the last month, which are mostly carried out brazenly in in the full glare of the public. Okoe Vanderpuiye said the cameras would have deterred the robbers from carrying on with the attack if the cameras had been activated.