As part of measures to ensure sanity on the highways during this year’s Eid-el-Fitri, Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, yesterday commenced a nationwide special patrol, to curb the spate of avoidable road crashes usually associated with surge of human and vehicular traffic across the country.
The patrol exercise tagged ‘Operation Barka Da Sallah is slated to take off from today August 29 to September 5 2011.
FRSC Corps Marshal and Chief Executive, Osita Chidoka, while speaking on the Sallah special patrol said the nationwide exercise forms part of the Corps’ sustained efforts to build a consistent tradition of enforcing traffic rules and regulations throughout the year to avoid a one-off approach to road safety management in Nigeria.
According to him: “The Sallah patrol is a build up on last Easter’s special patrol to address traffic peculiarities associated with the festive seasons.”
He said, “road accidents are avoidable and only obedience to road use best practices will guaranty safety of all road user’.
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