The Federal Road Safety Corps has deployed more than 35,000 personnel and other operational equipment for the 2021 Sallah special patrol, so as to guarantee safe travels for all road users across the country during the Eid-El Kabir celebrations.
Corps Marshal of FRSC, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, announced the massive mobilisation of personnel and operational equipment in a statement by the Corps Public Education Officer, Mr Bisi Kazeem on Thursday in Abuja, noting that the operation would cover 52 corridors across the nation.
He noted the Corps is embarking on the special patrol operation to ensure that motorists and other road users have a hitch-free celebration, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and security challenges in the country and the rainy season.
Oyeyemi disclosed that no fewer than 35,000 of the FRSC, comprising Regular, Special Marshals, and Road Safety Club members, about 750 patrol vehicles, 120 Ambulances, 25 tow trucks and over 200 bikes would be on the road during the special operation that would commence on 16 to 25 Jul 2021 nation-wide.
FRSC has over the years developed this tradition of always organising special patrol operations during festive periods as a way of averting the chaos that usually characterises the road during such celebrations.
“Motorists must endeavour to avoid traffic violations and remain conscious of their safety to avoid not only arrest and prosecution by members of the Corps, but falling prey to avoidable road crashes,”, he said.
He added that “the mission of the special operation is to ensure free flow of traffic, provide prompt rescue services and timely clearance of obstructions on all major roads and critical corridors across the country before, during and after the festive period as well as reduce Road Traffic Crashes, Road Traffic Fatalities and Road Traffic Injuries, enforce strict compliance to COVID-19 protocols by motorists and road users, ensure high visibility of the Corps on the highways, minimize the occurrence of road traffic crashes on the nation’s highways through effective patrol operations and sustained public enlightenment campaigns among others”.
To ensure the effectiveness of the operation, Oyeyemi directed commanding officers operating across various formations nationwide to ensure that the 52 corridors are properly manned throughout the period of the operations.
He, however, appealed to motorists to obey all traffic rules and regulations and cooperate fully with the FRSC and other law enforcement agencies that would be deployed for traffic management duties, saying Mobile Courts would be in session across the country for prompt dispensation of justice to recalcitrant traffic violators.
The Corps Marshal, also directed that the operatives pay first-rate focus on effective traffic control, wrongful overtaking, use of phone while driving, drivers licence violation, lane discipline, removal of rickety vehicles on the road, driving with expired/ worn-out tyre and without spare tyre among others.
The Corps has deployed operational equipment in the categories of Radar Guns, Breathalysers to put a check on drunk driving, while operational logistics materials are also to be fully deployed for this exercise.
The Corps Marshal has equally directed that all Zebras must be active 24/7 and be responsive to calls within the minimum FRSC response time to crashes reported.
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