The
Federal Road Safety Corps has said that drivers in the convoy of top
officials of the Kogi State Government have been shunning training
programmes it organised for drivers of top government functionaries in
the country.
The Corps Marshal and chief Executive of
FRSC, Mr. Osita Chidoka, who said this while addressing reporters on
the activities marking the 2013 Africa Road Safety and World Day for
remembrance for road traffic crashes victims on Thursday in Abuja,
blamed the frequent road crashes involving top officials of the state on
unqualified and untrained drivers.
He recalled the Tuesday accident where
the convoy of the state Governor, Captain Idris Wada was involved in an
accident that led to the death of a former President of the Academic
Staff Union of Universities, Prof. Festus Iyayi.
Chidoka, who said that the FRSC had
commenced investigation into the fatal crash, added that the outcome of
the investigation would be made public.
He said, “Unfortunately, the Kogi State
convoy drivers have not been involved in this training. I’ve just been
told by the Sector Commander that the governor had asked him to take all
the convoy drivers from Kogi State for this training, because, Kogi
convoy drivers were not involved in this training.
“Of the 700 convoy drivers we trained in
the last two years, none of them has been involved in any road crashes.
The only crash we have seen so far from convoy are from people that
have not attended our training.
“There are some vital things they were
taught on how to move on convoy. So, now that the governor had directed
his people to be trained, we have also advised him to bring some FRSC
officials into his convoy because many of the state governors who have
had no crashes have FRSC officials in their convoy.
He said, “You will recall
that on December 28, 2012, the Kogi governor had a crash, in which his
ADC was killed, on September 30, 2013, five people were injured in the
deputy governor’s convoy crash and also on November 12, 2013, the Kogi
governor’s convoy was involved in the second crash.”
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