By Stella Omona
As the yuletide season draws nearer, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has intensified safety enlightenment campaign and education to make road users especially drivers to adhere to safely measures to prevent crashes and loss of lives.
Assistant Corps Marshal, Public Education, Bisi Kazeem disclosed this in an interview with The Authority newspaper on Tuesday in Abuja.
While stressing that over-speeding remains one of the highest causes of road accident in the country, he maintained that there is no sinister myth as being believed and speculated that ’ember months’ are evil and a period that many lives are lost. Rather, he noted that it is just a period where many people are on the road at the time due to the festivities that come with end of the year.
He explained that FRSC has gone into synergy with the other stakeholders to ensure safely on the road.
“We are also looking at putting in place frustrating aspect of enforcement so that it will not be business as usual. We have done synergy with unions, National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners, Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, Petroleum Tankers Drivers of NUPENG, they are with us and collaborating with us and we are equally going to collaborate with other sister agencies like the military, the police, the Department of State Security (DSS), Civil Defense and others. These are what we are doing to ensure safety on the road,” Kazeem stated.
He also disclosed that enforcement of the speed limit device measure to curb crashes on the road is ongoing.
“The speed limit device measure is still on for commercial purpose alone because of the passengers they carry, that is why we are limiting it to them . We are still enforcing it. We believe that over speeding is still one of the highest causes of accident in Nigeria so we are not relenting on that. So enforcement is ongoing,” he stressed.
