Govt’s Road Infrastructure Attributed To Decrease In Road Accidents

By Kayode Oyedare

Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC Dauda Ali-Biu has attributed decrease in number of road accidents in the country to the federal government’s huge investment in road infrastructure and immense support to the Corps.

He stated this while addressing Newsmen in Abuja on programs lined up to commemorate this year’s World Day of Remembrance For Accident Victims.

The FRSC Corps Marshal explained that New patrol vehicles have been injected into the system with rapid expansion of Command structures which had increased the Corp’ss visibility on the highway.

He said the FRSC would continue to make the Road safer for socio economic activities towards the realization of the Renewed Hope Agenda of the present administration.

Dauda Ali-Biu appealed to road users to always obey traffic rules and regulations for further reduction of road accidents.

According to him, FRSC will intensify its sensitization campaign and robust partnership with stakeholders in the transport sector.

In a Goodwill message the representative of a Non Governmental Organization, Dr Yusuf Suberu said the remembrance day should be seen as a wake-up call for all stakeholders to join hands in addressing the challenges of Road Carnage in the continent

According to him, Road accidents is a major concern to the government across the globe with its alarming statistics of about 1.35 million deaths annually and attendant fatalities.

The country director of United Nations Decade of Action on Road Safety and injury prevention in Nigeria, Professor Sydney Ibeanusi commended FRSC deployment of technology and other initiatives introduced to check road accidents In the country.

Processor Ibeanusi stressed the need for stakeholders in the transport sector to
support the federal government’s effort at effective road management in the country.

Representatives of security and traffic management agencies in their separate messages pledged total support to programs that could bring sanity on the highways.

The Theme for this year’s commemoration is ‘Justice ‘ and the Slogan Remember, S.upport and Act.

Edited By Grace Namiji