The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, is to deploy over 743 patrol vehicles, 184 administrative vehicles, 92 ambulances, 23 tow trucks and 144 motorbikes as part of the logistics for its special patrol during the Easter period.
The patrol will be carried out from April 6 to 12, 2023.
The essence of the exercise is to ensure a safe and smooth 2023 Easter celebration.
In a statement made available by FRSC spokesman, Mr. Bisi Kazeem, the Corps Marshal, Dauda Ali Biu, is said to have tasked Commanding Officers to ensure full deployment of staff for maximum visibility, prompt removal of obstructions and ease of movement on all highways across the country.
That, Biu said, was in line with the operational guidelines of this year’s special patrol.
The FRSC boss further stated that the objectives of the special operations were reduction in road traffic crashes; road traffic fatalities and road traffic injuries; prompt response to road traffic crash victims; unhindered engagement in purposeful public education and enlightenment and speedy removal of obstructions from the highways, among others.
He assured members of the public that in achieving the objectives of the special operations, the Corps would combine the engagement of the motoring public through purposeful and impactful public education programmes, strengthening of surveillance activities to regulate unprofessional excesses, sustained effective patrol operations as well as adequate monitoring on the highways.
To that end, the FRSC said it would carry out aggressive enforcement including conducting over 200 mobile court operations, with the aim of checking the offences like speeding and dangerous Driving/Overtakingp; Lane indiscipline/Route violation; Road Obstructions; Use of Phone while Driving; Overloading; Seatbelt/Child restraint Use Violations; Passenger’s Manifest Violation; Operation of mechanical deficient and rickety vehicles; Latching and Twist-Locks Violation; Illegal use of the Spy Number Plates.
