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Personnel of the Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service are at the moment educating drivers and pedestrians on demarcations on the newly constructed Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange, ACP Patrick Adusei Sarpong, Director of the MTTD, has said.

According to him, such education will take place for a short period of time, following which flouters of road traffic regulations on the Interchange would be arrested and prosecuted.

The Interchange was inaugurated by President John Dramani Mahama on Monday November 14.

According to Mr Mahama, the project is expected to ease traffic along the Ring Road, through to Kaneshie, as well as from Adabraka through to Achimota.

Mr Mahama said: “With the opening of this interchange, we believe that several thousand more jobs will be created as a result of the trade and economic activity that this project will facilitate.

"Time is a precious invaluable commodity and once spent, it cannot be recovered.

"Effective use of time, therefore, has a direct impact on our economy and must be calculated as a contribution to our GDP.

"With the opening of this interchange on which at peak hours is used by about 80,000 vehicles and daily it is estimated to be used by about 200,000 vehicles, reducing travelling time between the Ring Road Central and Feo Oyeo Intersection towards the North Industrial Area from two hours to just approximately five minutes, not only are we saving hundreds of millions of cedis in time wasted by the delay and the travel time, but we are also stimulating business and economic activity."

Speaking in an interview with Chief Jerry Forson, host of Ghana Yensom on Accra 100.5FM, ACP Adusei said: “At this point we are assisting pedestrians and drivers on the newly built interchange. We will educate them for quite some time. But after the education we will arrest anybody who flouts the traffic regulations.”

He added: “There is the need for us to assist pedestrians in crossing the roads so that they will get familiar with the interchange.”