Salone National Association for the Deaf pays courtesy call on SLRTA boss
The National Association for the Deaf on Friday 31st January 2014 paid a courtesy call on the Executive Director of Sierra Leone Road Transport Authority (SLRTA) Dr. Sarah Finda Bendu at the SLRTA head quarter at Kissy Road in Freetown.
While making a statement the President of the Sierra Leone National Association for the Deaf, Mr. Alhaji Mohamed Rahman thanked Dr. Sarah Finda Bendu and her team for popularizing road safety in the country. He noted that we are losing a lot of lives as a result of gruesome road traffic crashes and that these road crashes cannot be unconnected to lawlessness on the part of drivers, bike riders and pedestrians.
He also noted that they are facing a lot of challenges as a result of their impaired hearing ability as he puts it while using the roads and this has resulted to the death of many of their membership. He called on the SLRTA to conduct road safety training for his entire membership as that would help them to know how to use the road responsibly to minimize the spate of road crashes in the country.
“We have lost many of our members/colleagues in road crashes simply because of their impaired hearing ability and we must not allow such to continue any longer. We are kindly asking for a road safety training for our entire membership this will help us to know the road signs and marking and thus help us to use the roads responsibly ” Mr. Rahman said.
In her response Dr. Sarah Finda Bendu expressed her appreciation to the president and the entire membership of the National Association for the Deaf. She noted the SLRTA do have plans to take road safety to the disable that is the blind, the deaf etc because road safety is not only a global concern but also a collective responsibility.
She however empathizes with them taking into consideration some of the constraints they undergo while using the roads. She promised that request of the National Association for the deaf would be given due consideration and some of their members would be incorporated in the road safety advocacy team.
By SLRTA Communications Unit
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