{"id":244672,"date":"2026-09-17T13:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T11:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-igp-engages-okada-riders-on-road-safety-registration\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T13:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T11:30:07","slug":"ghana-igp-engages-okada-riders-on-road-safety-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-igp-engages-okada-riders-on-road-safety-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: IGP Engages Okada Riders On Road Safety, Registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Christian Tetteh Yohuno, has urged commercial motorbike riders, popularly known as Okada riders, to prioritise road safety and ensure strict compliance with traffic regulations to reduce road crashes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">He also called on the riders to ensure that their members were properly trained in safe riding practices, duly registered and complied with licensing and motorbike registration requirements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Mr Yohuno made the call when he, together with members of the Police&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609170275.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Christian Tetteh Yohuno, has urged commercial motorbike riders, popularly known as Okada riders, to prioritise road safety and ensure strict compliance with traffic regulations to reduce road crashes. He also called on the riders to ensure that their members were properly trained in safe riding practices, duly registered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":244673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7406,4508,4509,7412,257,32677,7231,9060,7414,4672,254],"class_list":["post-244672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-engages","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-igp","tag-news","tag-okada","tag-registration","tag-riders","tag-road","tag-safety","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}