Safe Roads: Abiodun inaugurates state road safety advisory committee

Plans installment of speed readers, cameras

To reduce road crashes in Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has inaugurated the  State Road Safety Advisory Committee, charging them to discharge their duties diligently.
 
Abiodun, who announced his deputy, Noimot Salako-Oyedele, as the chairman of the committee, declared that his administration was ready to enforce speed limits as part of efforts to reduce carnage on the state roads.
 
Other members of the Committee, he said, were the  Commissioners for Transportation, Works and Infrastructure, Health, Justice, Education, Finance, Information and Strategy, Physical Planning and Urban Development, Special Adviser to the Governor on Environment and the representative of the Nigeria Society of Engineers.

He, however, lauded the Federal Government for setting up the Nigeria Road Safety Strategy and called on all stakeholders in the transportation sector to cooperate with the Committee, admonishing road users, particularly drivers to be careful while on the road.
 
In his remarks, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Sector Commander who is also the Secretary of the Committee, Mr. Ahmed Umar, said with the inauguration of the Committee, the state would take its rightful place as a state that has the safety of its people at heart.
  
He said that Nigeria Road Safety Strategy is a plan to improve safety on the roads in line with global best practice, submitting the action plan would help the country improve on issues relating to  road safety, adding that the National Road Safety Advisory Council was first inaugurated in the year 2017 with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, as its chairman.