MINISTER of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has called on the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) to declare 2019 as the year of road behavioural change, as a way of ensuring safety on roads.
Malam Bello, who made this call in Abuja, said according to statistics, most accidents on the road were caused by human factor.Â
He stressed the need for the commission to intensify its public enlightenment campaigns to educate Nigerians on the need to obey traffic signs no matter where they were situated.
The minister, therefore, solicited for an increase in the budgetary allocation to the commission to enable it to do the needed massive public enlightenment to achieve the objective.
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According to him, there is every need for you to embark on a public enlightenment campaign to change the behaviour of the public towards roads signage because at the end of the day, no matter how many, how strategically placed and how beautiful the signs are, they will be useless if the public still disobey the traffic signs.
“The immediate benefits of the siting of the plant in the FCT are immense, including, the provision of job opportunities for residents, enhancing the industrial profile of the host community as well as attract other complementary industries and services that would spin-off positive multiplier effects in the Area Council in particular and the FCT as a whole,” he added.
Malam Bello said the FCT administration was even more delighted because it hoped to patronise the plant in its ongoing plan to mount proper signage on all major roads and transportation infrastructure in the FCT, adding that in a few weeks’ time, a significant transformation of roads, with proper gantries and directional signs, would be noticed in the FCT.
He commended the commission for its efforts in building such a plant which, according to him, was in harmony with the commitment of the FCT administration to make roads easily navigable through the installation of clear and informative road and directional signs.
“To demonstrate our support, we started by using its products and services for our rail line and station signboards and bills even before the formal commissioning.Â
“We have already gone ahead of you to embrace the project after our due diligence. As satisfied customers, we consequently, recommend the products and services to all the states of the Federation as well as relevant organisations and companies whose operations involve road signs and directional billboards,” the minister stated.
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