(FRSC) Makes massive Deployment Ahead of Easter Celebration

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC)
has made massive deployments to ensure
compliance with traffic rules during the Easter
celebrations.
The organisation said this was also part of
measures to cope with traffic peculiarities
resulting from usual upsurge of vehicular and
human traffic in the country.
FRSC has deployed 455 patrol vehicles, 66
Ambulances, 102 motor bikes, 12 tow trucks and
more than 34 000 personnel along designated
routes ahead of the Christian holiday.

“Part of this nationwide engagement plans
include a massive deployment of personnel and
logistics along 23 designated critical corridors
and black spots such as Sagamu-Ore-Benin,
Lokoja-Benin-Auchi, Onitsha-Ihiala-Aba, Abuja-
Keffi-Akwanga-HawanKibo-Jos,Minna-Birnin-
Kebbi-Sokoto-Gusau-Funtua-Zaria,Kabba-
Umuoke-Ekiti-Ido-Ilesha, Benin-Warri-Patani-
Portharcourt and Makurdi-Oturkpo-Obollo
Afor-9th Mile highways and 65 routes, identified
for this exercise,” the Corps stated.
The agency said this was in addition to the
Corps’24 emergency ambulance response
centres located at designated routes in the FCT,
Kaduna, Gombe, Jigawa, Taraba, Niger, Kogi,
Ondo, Edo, Osun, Nasarawa, Plateau and Kwara
states, which will be complemented by relevant
stakeholders such as the Nigerian Police,
Nigerian Army, Nigerian Security and Civil
Defence Corps, National Emergency Management
Agency and others.
The Corps has tagged its operational road map
for a crash-free 2014 Easter celebration as
"Operation Easter 2014."

It is tailored towards reducing road crashes by
15 percent and fatalities by 25 percent before the
end of 2014 and is to be flagged- off nationwide
for one week from Wednesday.
“This year’s nationwide exercise has become
necessary to reduce the spate of road traffic
crashes in the country usually attributed to the
perennial rise in the violation of traffic rules and
regulations especially during festive season,”
FRSC stated.

It advised road users to desist from night trips
and ensure that vehicles which plied the
highways conformed to safety standards.
“Against this backdrop, motorists are hereby
warned to ensure strict compliance with all traffic
rules and regulations and proper maintenance of
vehicles which ply the highways as there will be
no waiver for any infractions by motorists.

Passengers are equally enjoined to monitor their
drivers on reckless driving, driving under the
influence of alcohol and other road vices as any
form of compromise may lead complacent
persons to grave consequences.”