The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has resorted to a more decisive measure to enforce the installment of Speed Limiting Devices on vehicles by organizing a Special Intervention Patrol (SIP) along critical corridors from 7 November to 13 November 2016.
According to a media statement by Bisi Kazeem, the Head, Media Relations and Strategy of the Corps, Corps Marshal of FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi has directed that the Special Intervention Patrol be used to impress on field commands to sustain the enforcement drive on Speed Limiting Device Installation in Commercial Vehicles, continue the sensitization exercise of the 2016 Ember Months campaign, and to reduce road traffic crashes caused by Overloading and Over speeding.
While all field Command operatives are to be involved in the Special Intervention Patrol, Commanding Officers are to ensure that special attention is given to all crash-prone areas within their jurisdictions, as well as to ensure that Officers, Marshals and Special Marshals are adequately mobilized in readiness to fully participate in the exercise.
The selected corridors that are considered as flashpoints for overloading infractions are: Kaduna-Abuja-Lokoja-Okene Route, Garaku-Akwanga-NasarawaEggon-Lafia-Makurdi route, Funtua-Tsafe-Gusau-Sokoto route, Lagos-Ogere-Ogunmakin-Ibadan route, Owo-Akure-Ilesha-Ife route, Jos-Toro-Bauchi-Alkaleri-Gombe route, Enugu 9th Mile-Awka-Nteje-IgboUkwu-Onitsha route, Asaba-Isele Uku-Agbor-Abudu-Benin route, and Jebba-Olooru-Bode Saadu route.
In relation to the foregoing, the Corps enjoins all motorists to continually imbibe good road use culture.
In a separate development, Corps Marshal Boboye Oyeyemi has enjoined staff across the country to embrace the modernization programs being put in place by the Management of the Corps to facilitate steady growth and development of the organization.
He stated this in Makurdi, Benue State while addressing staff of the Benue State Sector Command during his advocacy visit to the state.
Oyeyemi said without staff capacity development effective implementation of the various policies could run into a hitch.
The Federal Road Safety Corps is the lead Agency in Nigeria on road safety, administration and management created by the Federal Government in 1988.
