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.

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Mr Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, Director, Media and Public Affairs, NGF, made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.

He said the state of the economy ‪would dominate the conversation when the 36 governors meet at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

“Worried by the economic woes that the citizenry has been complaining about and the hardship associated with it, several governors reasoned that it is high time to tell each other the bare truth by confronting each other on the situation and brainstorming on it.

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“This formed the basis for resorting to an in-person meeting which since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic been relegated by the states’ executives.

“Two things will feature prominently in the conversation: the economy and security.”

He dismissed as spurious, recent media reports that the governors had collectively advised the president to compulsorily retire civil servants aged 50 and above.

According to him, the meeting will be the first to be held collectively by the governors on the nation’s economy in 2022.

Bello-Barkindo said that the governors would launch the Primary Health Care Leadership Challenge Fund and the World Bank SFTAS charter before going into the meeting, expected to commence by 2 p.m.

He added that the governors would receive update on the COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus programme during the meeting.

Source: NAN

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