The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has deployed no fewer than 35,000 of the FRSC Regular, Special Marshals, Road Safety Club members, about 750 patrol vehicles, 120 ambulances, 25 tow trucks and over 200 bikes ahead of the Eid-El Fitr celebration in Nigeria. The personnel, vehicles and equipment deployed will be on the road during the special operation that would commence from Tuesday, May 11 to Monday, May 17, 2021.
In a statement signed by the Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, the Corps is embarking on the special patrol operation to ensure that motorists and other road users have a hitch-free celebration, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic and security challenges in the country.
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According to him, “the mission of the special operation is to ensure free flow of traffic, provide prompt rescue services and timely clearance of obstructions on all major roads and critical corridors across the country before, during and after the festive period as well as minimising the occurrence of road traffic crashes on the nation’s highways through effective patrol operations and sustained public enlightenment campaigns”.
To ensure the effectiveness of the operations, Kazeem revealed that the Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi has directed commanding officers operating across various formations nationwide to ensure that the 52 corridors are properly manned throughout the period of the operations.
He however appealed to motorists to obey all traffic rules and regulations and cooperate fully with the FRSC and other law enforcement agencies that would be deployed for traffic management duties, saying mobile courts would be in session across the country for prompt dispensation of justice to recalcitrant traffic violators.
The Corps Marshal, also directed that the operatives pay first-rate focus on effective traffic control, wrongful overtaking, use of phone while driving, drivers licence violation, lane discipline, removal of rickety vehicles on the road, driving with expired or worn out tyre and without spare tyre etc.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
