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THE Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has deployed 11,000 officers, marshals, and special marshals to curtail the misuse of road during Easter celebration.
Bisi Kazeem, head media relations and strategy of the FRSC, disclosed this in a statement that it was based on the observations of the Corps that Boboye Oyeyemi, corps marshal and chief executive, approved also the deployment of 795 vehicles, 283 bikes, and 76 ambulances across different parts of the country.
Kazeem said: “It is in a bid to arrive destinations early that most transporters and private vehicle owners drive recklessly, and overtake wrongfully, thereby undermining their safe arrival.” He noted that during celebrations motorists are usually in the habit overloading their vehicles, which sometimes lead to crashes, loss of lives and properties.
The spokesman of the Corps stressed that the FRSC would be out to check all the accident induced factors not limited to wrongful overtaking, overloading, reckless driving, dangerous driving, etc for the 2016 Easter with effect from March 24 to 30.
Kazeem said further: “The Corps Marshal’s vision is to increase traffic management of the Corps to ensure smooth travels before, during, and after the festive season to minimise the occurrence of Road Traffic Crashes on national highways through public enlightenment, removal of rickety and broken down vehicles, and a full-scale enforcement on Fake and expired drivers licence, number plate violation, speed limit violation, overloading violation, lane indiscipline, and wrongful overtaking.”
He assured that with the measures on ground as well as the cooperation of motorists with all staff of the Corps deployed for the operations, road crashes would be reduced minimally, if not eradicated.
— Mar 23, 2016 @ 15:55 GMT
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