The motoring public should sustain their obedience to traffic rules and regulations which has made the roads to be stable during the Christmas period.
The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, made the call as he did a review of the first phase of the special patrol by the FIRS for the festive season.
The corps marshal also commended the personnel of the corps across the country for demonstrating absolute commitment, professionalism and innovativeness in managing the massive traffic movement recorded before the Christmas celebration.
In a press release issued by FRSC spokesman, Corps Commander Bisi Kazeem, the Oyeyemi expressed satisfaction with the performance of the personnel and conduct of the motoring public in the first phase of the exercise, despite some challenges encountered in parts of the country.
According to him, the fact that traffic movements were orderly in most part of the dreaded points across the federation toward the Christmas day and no reported cases of commuters sleeping on the road till the following day were reported was a positive development.
He, therefore, charged the personnel to remain focused and motorists to show greater commitment to issues of road safety, as the second phase of the exercise commenced in earnest following the successful Christmas celebration.
“The FRSC boss commended motorists for improved attitude to use of the road during the Christmas celebration and urged them to sustain the habit by showing greater concerns for other road users who must be given equal right to use of the roads,” he stated.
Oyeyemi particularly urged those leading convoy vehicles to show greater restraint while passing through congested and built up areas to avoid causing disorderliness that could lead to traffic chaos.
He specially thanked the stakeholders, particularly members of the security agencies for joining hands with the Corps in ensuring orderliness and security in challenging areas across the country.
“FRSC will remain committed to ensuring safer road environment through more effective management of traffic in all parts of the roads as the second phase of the exercise commences till the end of the yuletide season and beyond,” he stated.
It would be recalled that the FRSC special end of year operation codenamed, “Operation Zero Tolerance For Road Crashes,” was normally launched in early September to counter the perennial traffic crashes, congestion, injury and deaths that characterise the Yuletide season.
It covers the entire ember months and get heightened from December 15 with massive deployments of personnel, logistics and monitors from the national headquarters of the Corps which not only complement the effort of personnel in the field commands in traffic management, but ensure compliance to operational procedures as laid down in the administrative instructions.
This year’s exercise is expected to last till January 15 when stand down instructions would be issued by the Corps Marshal who is the Grand Commander of the entire operations.
