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In anticipation of mass movement of people and goods across the country during the end of Ramadan festive season this weekend, Boboye Oyeyemi, the Corps Marshal of the Federal Roads Safety Corps, has directed the regular and special marshals of the Corp to effectively cover 45 corridors during the Eid-El-Fitri special patrol which is expected to commence from June 13 to 18, 2018.
This move, according to Bisi Kazeem, Corps Public Education Officer, FRSC is determined to reduce road traffic crashes by at least 15 percent and fatalities by 30 percent during the period.
“All hands must be on deck to ensure free flow of traffic, reduction in road crashes, improved enforcement of traffic laws, and improved enlightenment on the proper use of the roads as the country approaches a busy Eid-El-Fitri celebration”, Oyeyemi advised.
He also directed that the Corps focuses on effective traffic control, failure to install/use speed limiting device by commercial vehicles, overloading, lane indiscipline and use of phone while driving,
Other contraventions include number plate violation, driver’s licence violation, removal of rickety vehicles on the roads and other obstructions, driving with expired/worn out tyres and without a spare tyre.
Consequently, the Corps Marshal has called on all road users to imbibe the attitude of proper use of the roads by not only driving to stay alive, but equally to save the lives of other road users.
The Corps will go into the exercise collaborating with military units en-route or resident, the Nigerian Police Force, the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, Department of State Security, State owned/NGO’s Ambulance service providers, National Network on Emergency Rescue Services (NNERS) and Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA).
Among the corridors to be covered are Sokoto-Tambuwal-Jega-Birnin Kebbi corridor, Katsina-Kano-Wudil-Dutse-
Kazeem revealed that all patrol vehicles, ambulances, tow trucks, motor bikes other operational equipment in the categories of radar guns, alcholyzers and all other operational logistics materials in custody of commands are to be fully deployed for this exercise, and that the corps marshal has equally directed that all zebras and road side clinics must be active 24/7 and be responsive to calls within the minimum FRSC response time to crashes reported.
The operation has been programmed to run in shift day and night rescue teams for operatives to be on standby at all operational commands.
