{"id":41890,"date":"2022-09-03T10:45:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T10:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/broadnews\/?p=41890"},"modified":"2022-09-03T10:47:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T10:47:16","slug":"road-crashes-redouble-your-commitment-to-public-enlightenment-frsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/broadnews\/2022\/09\/03\/road-crashes-redouble-your-commitment-to-public-enlightenment-frsc\/","title":{"rendered":"Road crashes: FRSC urges operatives to redouble commitment on public enlightenment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/broadnews\/2022\/08\/24\/speaker-says-true-federalism-critical-to-resolving-security-challenges\/\"> Federal Road Safety Corps<\/a><\/strong> (FRSC), Ondo State Command, has told its officers to redouble their commitment to public enlightenment and education, to reduce crashes on highways.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ezekiel SonAllah, State Sector Commander, made the call at a one-day capacity building oganised for the officers of Public Enlightenment Office (PEO) across all units in Ondo State on Friday in Akure.<\/p>\n<p>Reports have it that the workshop was tagged \u201cPublic Education: A Panacea to Reduction of Road Traffic Crash (RTC) in Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SonAllah, who explained that it was time for officers to advocate aggressively on public enlightenment, added that if people were well enlightened, the chances were there that crashes would reduce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis workshop is timely because we are already in ember months and the time has come for us to double our efforts as far as public enlightenment is concerned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are doing well before, but time has come to double your efforts by organizing programme and visiting motor parks, Churches, Mosques, marketplaces and<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/broadnews\/2021\/11\/25\/climate-change-an-ngo-calls-on-religious-and-traditional-institutions-to-raise-awareness\/\"> traditional institutions<\/a><\/strong> to talk to them about the dangers of excessive speed and overloading.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can only save lives if people are enlightened, and we need to understand that education was what the founding fathers of the corps used at the initial stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, it\u2019s something we must continue to do through our demonstration and commitment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>SonAllah, therefore, called on motorists and road users to change their attitude whenever they were driving, saying \u201clife has no duplicate and drivers need to stay alive to drive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the time has come for everybody to take responsibility and this is ember month where we expect high vehicular movement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou must improve the condition of your vehicles to ensure that they are road worthy. You must obey traffic rules and regulations and use defensive driving techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Mr Richard Adetoro, State Deputy Sector Commander and Head of Operation, admonished the PEO officers to be committed and show passion in their job.<\/p>\n<p>Adetoro said that the officers had a lot to do, especially in the Ember months, added that officers had to be passionate, advising and appealing to the inner self of motorists about safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to appeal to them (motorists) of the importance of their safety to their family members and preach the gospel either in churches or in commercial vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut your own gospel is safety on the highway,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Ondo State Command, has told its officers to redouble their commitment to public enlightenment and education, to reduce crashes on highways. 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