FRSC deploys 20,000 personnel, 413 patrol vehicles for election

As the general election draws near, the Federal Road Safety Corps has deployed 20,000 personnel and 413 patrol vehicles, ambulances and tow trucks along designated routes of the highways in the country.

This move is expected to collaborate with other security agencies to ensure sanity on the nation’s highway throughout the duration of the elections.

A statement issued in Abuja Thursday by the Corps Marshal of the FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi said  the Corps has drawn a road map towards effective patrolling of designated routes of the highways in addition to prompt rescue services and public enlightenment campaigns, as part of measures to engender best road safety practices among road users.

  

He said this is in addition to the Corps’ 24 emergency ambulance response centres located at designated routes across the country in the FCT, Kaduna, Gombe, Jigawa, Taraba, Niger, Kogi, Ondo, Edo, Osun, Nasarawa, Plateau and Kwara states.

He urged motorists to ensure proper planning and management of trips through maintenance of their vehicles and compliance with traffic rules and regulations.
“Motorists and other categories of road users are strictly warned to desist from all road vices such as overloading, speed limit violation, non-use of seat belt, route violation (driving against traffic), making/receiving calls while driving and night trips,” he said
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