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FG Declares Easter
FRSC-Boss-Boboye-Oyeyemi
FG Declares Easter Holiday
The Honourable Minister of Interior, Lt. Gen. (rtd) Abdulrahman
Bello Dambazau, CFR PhD, who made the declaration on behalf of the
Federal Government, enjoined all Christians to emulate the
exemplary attributes of Jesus Christ amongst which are tolerance,
love and peaceful co-existence.
He urged all Nigerians at home and abroad to use the occasion to
pray for the Peace, Unity, and Progress of our great country
Nigeria irrespective of diversity in religious beliefs.
General Dambazau while wishing all Nigerians a happy and
peaceful Easter celebration, further called on them to support the
administration of President Muhammadu Buhari in its determination
to take the country to the next level.
Barr. Georgina Ekeoma Ehuriah, MON
Permanent Secretary
Easter: FRSC Deploys 35,000 Personnel, 200 Mobile
Courts
As part of activities lined up to improve safe vehicular
movement and mitigate crashes before, during, and after the Easter
celebration; the Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC)
has approved the massive deployment of personnel, both regular and
special marshals, to address wrong road usage by motorists and
ensure free flow of traffic on all major highways across the
country. Total number of regular and special marshals deployed are
35,000 while over 200 mobile courts are also put in place.
According to the spokesman of the Commission, Bisi Kazeem, the
proactive Patrol and Rescue Operations which is billed to commence
from Thursday 18th April to Tuesday, 23rd April, 2019 will cover 52
Corridors across the federation.
Kazeem said that, ” concerned by the increasing wave of movement
of vehicles and passengers travelling during festive periods in
Nigeria, and the usual traffic preconditioned by unplanned
journeys, inadequate vehicle maintenance, inappropriate use of the
road and other rogue journey determinatants and delays; the
aggregate of which commonly result in gridlock and road traffic
crashes. The Corps Marshal has also directed the immediate
commencement of aggressive public enlightenment campaigns across
motor parks, terminals etc to sensitise the motoring public on the
basic safe road use practices expected from drivers this
season”.
In another parlance, the Corps Marshal warned the general public
to note that the Corps will not hesitate to bring any erring
offender to book.
And in doing so, the Corps will focus its Easter Special Patrol on
all offences, particularly the following; Overloading violations,
Drivers License violation, Lane indiscipline. Others are, Driving
with expired/worn out tyre and without a spare tyre and Failure to
install Speed Limit Device.
He further stated that the Corps will be prompt in rescue
operations and removal of rickety vehicles on the road and other
obstructions. In addition, Mobile Court Operations shall hold
across the country to minimize cases of offenders discharge to
entrench good road culture and behaviour.
Buttressing this further, Oyeyemi emphasised the importance of
collaboration and stated that the Corps will increase its
involvement and synergy with other security agencies to check the
activities of recalcitrant offenders.
Continuing, Kazeem also said that the Corps Marshal has assured
Nigerians that the Corps has instituted measures to ensure safe
travels before, during and after the Easter celebrations. He
elaborated that to achieve the above, motorists need to embibe safe
road use attributes, particularly, avoid excessive speed,
overloading driving under influence of drugs or alcohol, always
take first driving precaution and avoid unnecessary rush, plan
their trips and cooperate with law enforcement agents.
He therefore reminded the public to call FRSC toll free numbers;
122, or 0700-CALL-FRSC, 0700-2255-3772 for prompt rescue and
removal of obstructions.
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