Anambra Yuletide: FRSC to deploy over 1,000 personnel

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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has said it would deploy over 1,000 personnel to ensure free-flow of traffic during the 2017 yuletide in Anambra State, reports ITRealms.

The corps’ Commander in the state, Sunday Ajayi, made this known recently in Onitsha and said that the command was prepared to work with other security agencies to increase enforcement during the period and has concluded plans to deploy some 1,000 personnel and 400 Special Marshals to various traffic flash-points.

“We are going to use road safety club members to assist in traffic control in addition to personnel from the Red Cross, Operation Clean and Healthy Anambra and the state’s Traffic Management Agency.

“We will be thick on the road. I urge motorists to exhibit good attitudes, obey traffic rules and must be willing to assist others while using the road. Besides ensuring hitch-free traffic during the period, our target enforcement is on seat belt violation, use of phone while driving, overload, speeding and one way drive, among others.

In addition, he said, FRSC presence will be at flash points where they are expected have road blocks, including Tarzan junction, Onitsha; old Onitsha-Awka road, Nnobi, Ekwulobia and Bridgehead.

The command, he also said, had commenced the removal of broken-down vehicles and other obstructions causing encumbrances and deaths on major highways in the state.

*Ozo Nweke Ozo with additional report from NAN/GEE

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Killers of 7 FRSC officers must face trial - Oyeyemi

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The killers of seven officers belonging to the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) must face trial, says the Corp Marshal, Mr. Boboye Oyeyemi, reports ITRealms.

Speaking in Lagos at the weekend, Mr. Oyeyemi said that FRSC between the last four months has lost 7 officers due to reckless driving of some motorists, insisting they must be made to face the law.

This kind of killing, he said, is most regrettable because those officers were doing their constitutional job and should be respected at all times.

“FRSC lost about 7 officers between December and date,” he decried, promising that culprits will be prosecuted.

ITRealms recalled that FRSC, established in in February 1988 by the Federal Government under the statute books as the FRSC Act cap 141 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria (LFN), has the functions of making the highway safe for motorists and other road users, recommend works and devices designed to eliminate or minimize accidents on the highways and advising the Federal and State Governments including the Federal Capital Territory Administration and relevant governmental agencies on the localities where such works and devices are required.

In addition, FRSC has the mandate to educate motorists and members of the public on the importance of discipline on the highway, particularly, has responsibilities of preventing or minimizing accidents on the highway; clearing obstructions on any part of the highways; educating drivers, motorists  and other members of the public generally on the proper use of the highways; designing and producing the driver’s license to be used by various categories of vehicle operators; determining, from time to time, the requirements to be satisfied by an applicant for a driver’s licence; and designing and producing vehicle number plates.

Equally, ITRealms notes that FRSC has the mandate to standardization of highway traffic codes; giving prompt attention and care to victims of accidents; conducting researches into causes of motor accidents and methods of preventing them and putting into use the result of such researches; determining and enforcing speed limits for all categories of roads and vehicles and controlling the use of speed limiting devices; cooperating with bodies or agencies or groups in road safety activities or in prevention of accidents on the highways.

Further,by making regulations in pursuance of any of the functions assigned to the Corps by or under the Act, ITRealms gathered that FRSC also regulates the use of sirens, flashers and beacon lights on vehicles other than ambulances and vehicles belonging to the Armed Forces, Nigeria Police, Fire Service and other para-military agencies; just as it must provide roadside and mobile clinics for the treatment of accident victims free of charge; regulating the use of mobile phones by motorists; seat belts and other safety devices to name a few.

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FRSC warns ‘car owners’ to wear rear seat belts, watch speed limit

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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has disclosed that top on its agenda for this year is the mandatory enforcement of speed limit device and rear seat belt usage, ITRealms reports.

The Corp Marshal, Mr. Boboye Oyeyemi made this known in Lagos at the weekend while briefing members of Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), at the sector headquarters, saying that strategy is to continuously reduce accidents and fatal crashes on Nigerian roads.

He warned that most Nigerians, especially those who are described as ‘car-owners’ and who usually seat at the rear should imbibe the habit of wearing their seat belts among rear passengers or face the wrath of the law, stressing that if they do, and even have a company at the rear, definitely such a passenger will wear theirs as well.

According to him, annually, most probable cause of road traffic crashes have been linked to speed violation, loss of control and dangerous driving.

On top of this list, Oyeyemi said, has been speed violation, which has also continued to reduce in the last four years with about 8.7 per cent, citing for instance, that as at December 2015, speed violation road accidents was at 26.5 per cent, while loss of control was at 22.9 per cent and dangerous driving at 9.4 per cent.

He also revealed that the Corps has commenced advisory enforcement on the use of rear seat belts to further reduce fatalities and save more lives.

He, therefore, solicited partnership with the Nigerian media to ensure this initiative gets the buying-in of all Nigerians.

Oyeyemi advised Nigerians and media practitioners particularly to also show examples by fastening their rear seat belts.

He also solicited media partnership with FRSC, saying that … Nowhere in Nigeria is better covered without the Press, adding that information from remote parts of the country can be accessed through the Press and vice versa, hence, FRSC has better mileage when the Press is there for her.

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Pix: Oyeyemi, FRSC Corps Marshal at rear and on seat belt