President John Dramani Mahama says Ghana will compare road-crash figures month by month with the same months in 2025 to test whether TraffiTech-GH is cutting accidents and saving lives.
Speaking to the Presidential Press Corps at Jubilee House on Thursday, November 5, 2026, he asked motorists to bear with the automated enforcement system, which began issuing fines on Sunday, November 1. MyJoyOnline and Citi Newsroom carried matching accounts of the pledge.
“I can assure you, if we bear with this TraffiTech system, when you see the results of reduction in accidents at the end of the year, because it started November 1st, we’ll do a month-to-month comparison with last year,” he said, according to 3News. “And you yourself will be surprised at the number of lives this TraffiTech system will save.”
What is being enforced now
Only speeding is live on the cameras. Red-light jumping and illegal parking modules are not yet switched on; the President said those would be added next year. Urban speed limits, including in Accra, remain 50 km/h.
He put the 2025 death toll at 2,151, saying 474 were pedestrians knocked down, many of them schoolchildren. The National Road Safety Authority’s January figures for 2025 are higher — 2,949 deaths in 14,743 crashes — a gap noted here without resolving which series the monthly test will use. No date was given for the first published comparison; November versus November 2025 is the earliest the test can cover.
Check the text before you pay
Commissioner of Police Grace Ansah-Akrofi, Director-General of the Public Affairs Unit, told motorists on Thursday to confirm any notice before paying. A genuine SMS comes from sender ID GPS-MTTD, not an ordinary mobile number. Open the notice and match the photograph, plate, place, date and time; watch any attached video. Never pay a personal MoMo number.
Speeding fines start at GH¢240. Owners have 14 days from the notice to pay or contest it online. The police call centre is 059 692 2402. MTTD officers have separately said official TraffiTech messages will not come from a phone number; anything that does should be treated as a scam.
Critics and cameras
Lawyer Martin Kpebu has asked police to delay full rollout and do more public engagement, JoyNews reported. Action for Justice, in a November 5 statement, backs the anti-speeding push but wants cameras drivers can see, with warning boards ahead. The President has asked for warning signs; the NRSA says cameras will run only on roads that already carry a speed-limit sign. Police guidance says there is no legal duty to announce a camera, and a missing sign does not cancel the offence.
What happens next
Month-by-month crash comparisons with 2025 will be the public scorecard for TraffiTech-GH. Until those figures appear, drivers are advised to keep to the 50 km/h urban limit, verify every GPS-MTTD notice, and ignore personal MoMo payment requests. GhEcho will report the first official comparison when it is published.