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President Buhari Proud Of Leading Role Of Road Safety Corps In Africa

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed pride on the leading role which the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has been playing in its 30 years of existence in Nigeria.

In a message to felicitate with the management and staff of the Corps as it celebrates 30 years of its establishment, Buhari said: “the recent United Nation’s commendation of Nigeria’s road safety action plan, affirms the Federal Road Safety Corps’ leading role not only in West Africa but the entire African continent.”

He commended the vision of its founding fathers in February 1988 in response to the unacceptable level of road crashes in the country even as he expressed that after three decades of operations, the Corps had reduced road crashes from an alarming 40,881 in 1976 to 5,993 in 2016 and 4,418 in 2017.

He lauded the significant reduction in the emergency response time of the Corps from 50 to 15 minutes to accident scenes on the nation’s highways.

The President commended the FRSC’s deployment of international best practices and use of technology in its uniform licensing scheme, tracking, vehicle plate numbering and other services.

Buhari pledged that his government will continued to support the FRSC to enable the organization achieve the goal of United Nations Decade of Action on Road Safety of 50 per cent fatality reduction by 2020, thereby placing Nigerian roads among the league of 20 global safest roads by the target year.

The President emphasized that road safety is a shared responsibility of everyone, even as he advised the FRSC to intensify its public education role.

He also advised other government and private organizations as well as members of the public to support the FRSC to further make road travels safer and more pleasurable.