The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has commenced massive mobilisation of its personnel and operational equipment for the Sallah special patrol across the country.
The special patrol is aimed at ensuring safer road environment, before, during the festive period and beyond.
This comes following the declaration of Thursday, 13th May, 2021 as the day for Eid el Fitr.
The FRSC’s Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem said no fewer than “35,000 of the Corps Regular, Special Marshals, and Road Safety Club Members, about 750 Patrol Vehicles, 120 Ambulances, 25 Tow Truck and over 200 Bikes would be on the road during the special operation that would commence from 11 to 17 May, 2021.”
The Corps Public education Officer stated that the Corps is embarking on the special patrol operation to ensure that motorists and other road users have a hitch free celebration, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and security challenges in the country.
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According to him, “the mission of the special operation is to ensure free flow of traffic, provide prompt rescue services and timely clearance of obstructions on all major roads and critical corridors before, during and after the festive period as well as minimising the occurrence of road traffic crashes on the nation’s highways through effective patrol operations and sustained public enlightenment campaigns.”
“The FRSC has a tradition of always organising special patrols during festive periods as a way of averting the chaos that characterise the road during the celebrations, as such, this year’s Eid el Fitr would not be an exemption.
”Motorists must endeavour to avoid traffic violations and remain conscious of their safety to avoid not only arrest and prosecution by members of the Corps, but falling prey to avoidable road crashes,” Kazeem stated.
He said; “Special focus will be on checking the following offences; Dangerous driving/overtaking, overloading violation, use of phone while driving, excessive speed, lane indiscipline/route violation, passengers’ manifest violation, illegal use of SPY number plate, latching violation among others.”
Kazeem therefore, appealed to motorists to obey all traffic rules and regulations, cooperate fully with the FRSC and other law enforcement agencies that would be deployed for traffic management.
He added that Mobile Courts would be in session across the country for prompt dispensation of justice to recalcitrant traffic violators.