The Zone 2 Command, Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC in charge of Ogun and Lagos states, is restrategising in road safety campaigns to reduce fatality at the grassroots.
The FRSC Ogun Sector Commander, Clement Oladele gave the assurance in Lagos at the flag-off of Ember month’s safety campaign at Ojota Park.
He said the world is only waiting to aggregate the data and there is a need to go back to the grassroots, by sensitising people to the need for road safety to ensure sanity on the roads,’’.
According to Oladele, the World Health Organisation, WHO and United Nations, UN are worried by the rate of road accidents globally.
The FRSC Boss appealed to motorists to comply with traffic rules, saying that the corps would not relent in its enforcement. He gave the assurance that the corps would continue to enlighten the motoring public until it would become road safety conscious.
Oladele had said that available statistics for the first three quarters in the zone indicated that road crashes rose from 583 in 2018 to 882 in 2019, or by 51 per cent.
