Pursuant to its 2016 strategic goals towards improving road safety, the Federal
Road Safety Corps has deployed 500 patrol vehicles, 50 Ambulances, 85 motor
bikes, 15 tow trucks and over 20,000 personnel including special marshals, along
designated routes as part of measures to ensure sanity on the nation’s highways,
during this year’s Eid-el-Fitri Sallah celebration from 3 – 10 July, 2016.
This year’s nationwide exercise which is partial fulfilment of the Corps’ 2016
strategic goals of reducing road crashes by 15% and fatality by 25%, has become
necessary to ensure safer road use during the festive period, usually associated
with high volume of vehicular traffic.
The special patrol also entails intensive patrols, prompt rescue services, strict
enforcement of traffic rules and robust public enlightenment campaigns across the
nation. In addition, the FRSC operatives will be deployed along designated Eid
praying grounds as part of measures to ensure free flow of traffic.oyeyemi
Partofthisnationwideengagementplans,accordingtotheFRSCHead,Media
Relations and Strategy Corps Commander Bisi Kazeem, is massive deployment of
personnel and logistics along 23 designated critical corridors and black spots such
as Lokoja-Benin-Auchi, Abaji-Lokoja, Abuja-Keffi-Akwanga-HawanKibo-Jos,Minna-
Birnin-Kebbi-Sokoto-Gusau-Funtua-Zaria, Potiskum-Damaturu, Kabba highways and
65 routes, identified for this exercise”.
Similarly, 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, will be
operational throughout the period. The FRSC will be complemented by relevant
stakeholders such as the Nigerian Police, Nigerian Army, Nigerian Security and
Civil Defence Corps, National Emergency Management Agency and others.
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