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The National Insurance Commission on Friday
donated a cheque for GH¢100,000 to the Ghana Police Service to boost the
service’s effort at enforcing law and order.
The Commission further
pledged to support the service on monthly basis with GH¢25,000.00 to execute
professional duties, promising to shore up the amount based on performance
level.
Receiving the cheque, Mr Mohammed Ahmed Alhassan, Inspector
General of Police (IGP), said: “We find this initiative very innovative…what you
have done redefines companies’ and organisations’ interest in the development of
our nation.”
He urged corporate institutions and organisations to emulate
the commission’s commitment and willingness to lessen the resource constraints
confronting the service to improve service delivery.
Ms Lydia Lariba
Bawa, Commissioner of Insurance, presenting the cheque, raised concerns about
the seeming lack of enforcement of certain laws.
The concerns largely
bordered on uninsured vehicles plying the roads, motokings carrying passengers
instead of goods, use of wrong or lack of driving licenses and uninsured
commercial buildings.
According to Ms Bawa, a survey result indicated
that about 90 per cent of motor cycles and motorbikes on the roads were either
“unregistered, uninsured or both.”
She said in spite of banning
commercial motorcycling, popularly called okada, it was still in operation
posing danger to occupants.
“Without insurance and I mean the appropriate
insurance, the third party liability is not covered,” she said.
She said
the insurance companies relied very much on police report for the settlement of
most claims; motor, theft, burglary and fire, however, “obtaining a police
report for the purposes of insurance is a major headache for many claimants
pursing insurance claims.”
Ms Bawa called on the police administration to
rationalise the processes to ensure that the reports were issued swiftly, and
also enforce the compulsory fire insurance as contained in the Insurance Act
2006 (Act 724). |
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