MASLOC signs MoU with National Drivers Academy to train drivers

Micro-Finance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) would this year provide taxi drivers and other commercial drivers with 600 vehicles on hire-purchase basis.

MASLOC would also organize training programmes that would help drivers to be courteous and decent to clients including foreigners, Madam Bertha Gyan, Chief Executive Officer of MASLOC,  said this at the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between her outfit and the National Drivers Academy in Accra.

Under the MoU, MASLOC would provide some support for the National Drivers Academy to train more drivers in both the public and private sectors to improve on their performance.

The Chief Executive Officer said her outfit had already provided 500 vehicles to drivers who had already started paying by installments to be completed within four years.

She said a survey conducted in 2003 showed that only 16 percent of commercial drivers had formal training and therefore accounted for major causes of road accidents that MASLOC would fight to reverse in the coming years.

Madam Gyan said the training would also help the drivers to cultivate the habit of returning passengers’ valuables left in their vehicles to bring respect and dignity to the country in the eyes of foreigners.

She said they would also institute tracking systems that would report all drivers who misconduct themselves.

Mr Etse Ladzekpo, Chief Executive officer of the National Drivers Academy, appealed to Ministries, Departments and Agencies to embrace the programme to upgrade their skills to reduce road accidents in the coming years.

Mr Noble Appiah of the National Roads safety Commission commended MASLOC for their initiatives and appealed to organizations and individuals to take advantage of the programme to reduce the spate of accidents in the country.

Source: GNA