FRSC set to commission operational vehicles, ambulances, tow trucks

Further to its renewed determination towards creating safer motoring environment across the country, the Federal Road Safety Corps has concluded plans to formally unveil operational vehicles, ambulances and a heavy duty tow truck.

The unveiling ceremony would be performed on Monday at the Peace Park, by the International Conference Centre in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

According to the FRSC’S Head of Media Relations and Strategy, Bisi Kazeem, the formal commissioning, which will have President Muhammadu Buhari as Special Guest of Honour, is designed in partial fulfillment of the Corps’ drive to achieve the 2016 corporate strategic goals, which seek to reduce road traffic crashes by 15 per cent and fatalities by 25 per cent.

Speaking on the proposed formal launch of the patrol vehicles, the FRSC Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi, stated that the occasion “will symbolise the sustained intent of the Federal Government to raise the bar on road safety management and collective dedication to the task of exploring innovative and resourceful ways of funding the road safety intervention in the road sector”.

In the same vein, Oyeyemi added: “The patrol vehicles and ambulances will be distributed along major corridors as part of measures to enhance road safety management and increase safety enforcement strategies.

“Our determination in this regard cannot and will not in the least be compromised because the lives of our citizens, using these roads is vital to our socio-economic renewal and indeed national transformation.

“In its resolve to address the menace of road traffic crashes, the Corps applies series of integrated measures including crash prevention, enforcement, awareness raising and post crash medical care to create meaningful measurable improvement along major corridors of the nation’s highways.”

Oyeyemi thanked President Buhari and the Federal Executive Council for remaining steadfast in their declaration to ensure safer road use in the country through improved funding of road safety-related matters.