FRSC deploys personnel for Easter festivities

THE Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) yesterday said it has deployed over 34,000 personnel and 66 ambulances for road safety for the Easter celebration.

It also said the commission has deployed some 102 motor bikes, 455 patrol vehicles and 12 tow trucks to the nation’s highways. This massive personnel and logistics deployment in tackling road accidents has been a national engagement especially during festive periods.

Corps Marshal of FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi, who said that the concentration of personnel and logistics is targeted along 23 designated critical corridors and black spots in the country, listed the sensitive routes to include Sagamu-Ore-Benin, Lokoja-Benin-Auchi, Onitsha-Ihiala-Aba, Abuja-Keffi-Akwanga-HawanKibo-Jos, Minna-Birnin-Kebbi-Sokoto-Gusau-Funtua-Zaria, Kabba-Umuoke-Ekiti-Ido-Ilesha, Benin-Warri-Patani-Port Harcourt and Makurdi-Oturkpo-Obollo Afor-9thMile highways and 65 routes.”

Also identified for this exercise include the Corps’ 24 emergency ambulance response centres located at designated routes across the country in the Federal Capital Territory, Kaduna, Gombe, Jigawa, Taraba, Niger, Kogi, Ondo, Edo, Osun, Nasarawa, Plateau and Kwara states.

Oyeyemi, who noted that this year’s nationwide exercise has become necessary to reduce the spate of road traffic crashes in the country usually resulting from violations of traffic rules and regulations.