Ejike Ejike and Adebayo Waheed
Further to sustained efforts towards ensuring sanity
on the highways during this year’s Eid-el- Fitri celebrations, the Federal Road
Safety Corps (FRSC) has deployed 15,000 personnel, 800 patrol vehicles, 60
motor bikes, 52 ambulances and 6 heavy duty tow trucks along critical sections
of the highways as part of plans for a nationwide special patrol slated for
25th – 29th July, 2014, with the theme, ‘Attitude: The Change We Need On Our
Roads’.
The exercise, which is in line with the corps’
continued drive to achieve its 2014 strategic goals of reducing road traffic
crashes by 15% and fatalities by 25%, especially during the festive season, has
also being designed to address the perennial rise in the violation of traffic
rules and regulations during the Eid-el Fitri celebration.
According to the FRSC public education officer, ACM.
Jonas Agwu, the special patrol is aimed at addressing the spate of avoidable
road crashes usually associated with surge of human and vehicular traffic
across the country and is an all-inclusive exercise which will witness
intensive patrols, prompt rescue services, strict enforcement of traffic rules
and robust public enlightenment campaigns across the country.
Aside from massive deployment of personnel and
logistics along designated corridors and black spots, the FRSC has established
9 Help Areas along Hawa Kibo, Akwanga, Gwagwalada, Lokoja, Ore, Egbeda, Mowe,
Oghere and Kakau highways, in addition to the establishment of mobile courts at
specific locations across the country for quick dispensation with road traffic
violations.
Meanwhile, the Oyo State police command has assured
residents of the state that it has put in place security arrangements that will
make this year Eid-el-Fitri celebration hitch-free.
The command’s spokesperson, SP Olabisi
Okuwobi-Ilobanafor said in a statement in Ibadan on Friday that all policemen
of the command have been deployed to all nooks and crannies of the state to
ensure there is adequate security of lives and property before, during and
after the Sallah celebration.
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