The Federal Road Safety Corps on Thursday embarked on an exercise focused on strategic monitoring of traffic flow along the Otedola and Lagos-Ibadan corridors.

The exercise focused on safety compliance, congestion management, and operational visibility.

The Assistant Corps Marshal, Zonal Commanding Officer, FRSC, supervising Lagos and Ogun states, Ann Oladayo,  said the initiative was to ensure safer road usage across key corridors during the Sallah celebration.

She said, “We are here to make sure that there is free flow of traffic along this route, all the way from Lagos to Ibadan as the case may be especially at this time when we have huge traffic on the highway for the Sallah festival. We urge the motoring public to drive carefully. As we can see, there is no obstruction, just that the traffic is heavy, if they keep moving slowly like this, there will not be any problem. They should drive carefully and be patient, stay alert and be safe. We do not want any crash this period.”

On the issue of truck accident on the road, she said that it was still the same thing, boiling down to careful driving.

She stated, “We have a tank farm were we do the check list of all those trucks coming from the loading point, those that are not fit to be on the road, we don’t pass them from the tank farm. For those on the road, they should drive carefully, they should mind their lane and be law abiding citizens.
`The whole essence of moving on the road is to get home safely and that is what we want to wish everybody that is travelling this Sallah period so that they arrive at their destination safely.”

Ms Oladayo noted that FRSC personnel would be visible on the road during the celebration to ensure free flow of traffic.

“The number of staff deployed from Lagos and Ogun states this Sallah period was doubled and this is to ensure all those bad spots are properly manned to avert whatever crash that may happen on the road.
“For drivers, we always tell them not to drink and drive, if they they must drink, don’t drive. We do have breathalyzers that we use to check if we suspect a driver that is under the influence of alcohol.

“The drivers will park their vehicles and cannot continue that journey and we also book them appropriately. These are measures we use to ensure zero crashes on the highway,” she said.

Present at the exercise were Corps Commander Kehinde Hamzat, of the Lagos Sector Command, Corps Commander Akinwumi Fasakin, Ogun Sector Commander and other top FRSC personnel.
Sister agencies at the exercise include the Nigeria Police Force, FRSC special marshals, and Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, among others. 

(NAN)