The Federal Road Safety Corps has concluded plans to
flag off a nationwide special intervention patrol tagged “Operation Shield IV”,
slated for 25th – 29th August, 2014.
According to the FRSC, the all inclusive exercise
which is pursuant to the Corps’ 2014 strategic goal to reduce road crashes by
15% and fatalities by 25% by the end of the year, will witness massive
deployment of 240 personnel, 43 patrol vehicles, 7 ambulances and 4 heavy duty
tow trucks.
In the same vein, he added that Edo Sector Command
in Benin will serve as operational base for corridor 3 (Benin-Asaba highway)
with strict enforcement of traffic rules and regulations, intertwined with
robust public enlightenment campaigns.
Uchegbu also said that the major focus for the
special exercise will be on speed limit violation, lane violation and
overloading in addition to other road vices.
“Operation Shield which has entered its 4th version
is designed with the primary aim of shielding road users from the incidence of
road crashes which has been witnessed recently along specific routes of the
highways”.
“This exercise will witness massive deployment of
personnel and logistics along the critical corridors with emphasis on public
enlightenment, clearing of obstructions and the enforcement of road vices such
as lane indiscipline, speed limit violation, overloading and other violations”.
While identifying attitude of motorists as a major
causative factor for most of the road crashes, Uchegbu also urged for
behavioural change among Nigerian drivers who have resorted to flagrant
violation of traffic rules and regulations such as speed limit violations even
in the face of improved road condition across the country. She further
disclosed that the Operation Shield exercise will be sustained by the FRSC
especially in view of the need to deliver on its core mandate of enthroning
safer roads and fuller lives to Nigerian road users.
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