Following heightened insecurity and safety of lives across the country, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said it is restrategising to boost operational activities across traffic and crash prone areas nationwide.
FRSC disclosed this on Wednesday in a statement through its Assistant Corps Marshal Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, addint that it has mapped out some of the areas that require safety attentions where it would deploy its personnel and equipment.
The prone areas to be manned include the Lokoja-Kabba-Ayere-Akunu-Ise-Junction-Ile-are-Ado, Asaba-Abraka-Ughelli-Warri, Ibadan-Ogere-Sagamu, Sagamu-Mowe-Lagos corridorscorridor, Ekiti, Lokoja-Kabba-Ayere, 9thMile-Udi-Oji-River-Umunze, Bauchi-Alkaleri-Kaltungo, Kaduna-Kachia-Kwoi-Manchok, Keffi-Nasarawa-Toto-Abaji-Lokoja, Lekki-Epe-Ijebu Ode.
Others are the Akwanga-Lafiya-Makurdi, Jos-Bauchi-Gombe, Sokoto-Tambuwal-Jega-Birnin Kebbi, Katsina-Kano-Wudil-Dutse-Azare-Potiskum, Kaduna-Saminaka-Jos, Abuja-Kaduna-Kano expressway Okene-Ogori-Isua-Owo, and Makurdi-Otukpo-Obollo Afor-9th Mile.
“In his quest to make the highways safer for all road users, the Acting Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Dauda Ali Biu has said that the Corps is currently restrategising to boost its operational activities through the deployment of adequate operational equipments and personnel to effectively mann traffic and crash prone areas nationwide,” Kazeem stated.
According to him, the Acting Corps Marshal said this while addressing the workforce at the national headquarters during his second parade held on Wednesday morning.
“The deployment will include injecting new fleet of vehicles into the operational front, fixing of grounded vehicles that are presently impacting negatively on the general operations of the Corps, and tackle fuel inadequacies for patrol, rescue and administrative fleet of the Corps among others.
“The new fleet which include ambulances for rescue services, light and heavy tow trucks for prompt removal of obstructions, and administrative and patrol vehicles will be commissioned for full operations very soon,” Kazeem added.
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