The president of the Ghana Drunkards Association, Moses Onyah (Drybone), has appealed to President Mahama to provide at least one bus in every region specifically for intoxicated persons by next year.

Speaking in an interview with Mubarak Yakubu on Kofi TV, he pleaded with the President to ask the Transport Minister to procure buses for each region to convey people who are too drunk to walk home.

He said drunkards often struggle to find transport after drinking at a spot, and the buses would circulate to pick them up and take them to their destinations.

He recalled a time when he could not get a car home after drinking at a spot around Accra Central and urged the President, the Ghana Police Service and the Transport Minister to buy buses labelled "dedicated to Drunkards Association of Ghana".

He suggested members would use their ID cards to board and would pay a fare, and that the buses would make rounds to collect people in need.

"The Ghana Police Service and the transport minister should help talk to His excellency the president to buy buses for every region for now to go round to pick our people back to their destinations," he stated. 

Mr Onyah added that under former Inspector General of Police (IGP) George Akuffo Dampare, police would respond when someone called to report a drunk person; the petrol team would arrive, ask where the person was from, and take them home.

He said that since the appointment of the current IGP, Christian Tetteh Yohuno, the petrol team has stopped assisting and even refuses to pick up intoxicated persons they encounter on the road.

Mr Onyah urged the IGP to instruct the Police Service to resume picking up intoxicated persons with the petrol team while they wait for the President to provide the buses.

"When Dampare was in office I remember that when you call the police that you are drunk at a place they could come with the petrol car to pick you back home but since Tetteh Yohuno came now the petrol team do not pick us anymore.

"That is really worrying us because you can go somewhere even at a point where the rain will be coming and you will see a petrol car and when you stop it, they can even insult you and go but at first they will ask where you are from then they take you back home," he said.