The donation, aimed at equipping the city’s enforcement drive to mitigate road hazards, includes items such as LED-light batons, reflective vests, traffic cones, directional signposts, and raincoats.

Rebecca Bavinger, a Public Health Professional at Bloomberg Philanthropies handed over the equipment to the AMA on Monday when she called on the Mayor of Accra as part of a six-day working visit to Ghana.

She disclosed that the initiative would officially end in 2025 and expressed gratitude to the AMA for the collaboration describing the partnership as wonderful.

“As you know, we are engaged in the initiative with Accra through the end of 2025, we have less than two years left with the whole programme, so we want to accomplish as much as we can in the next 21 months we have left and looking forward to your leadership. It has been a wonderful collaboration until now,” Bavinger stated.

She mentioned some key achievements of the initiative citing the construction of road safety enhancement works at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, London Market Street, among others.

Others were the training of police officers and communication agencies and the AMA enforcement team, the donation of 12-speed guns to AMA for the Police, as well as collaboration with journalists to report on issues of road safety.

Mrs Elizabeth Kwatsoe Sackey, the Accra Metropolitan Chief Executive, who received the items expressed profound gratitude to Bloomberg Philanthropies for their unwavering support and commitment to road safety initiatives stressing that the donation would augment the city’s capabilities to address road safety challenges effectively.