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TRACE Implores Commercial Drivers To Cooperate With Personnel To Minimize Gridlocks In Ogun
The Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), has appealed to commercial vehicle drivers plying Owode-Ijako road, on the Abeokuta-Lagos Expressway, to cooperate with its personnel to minimise gridlocks along the axis.
Mrs. Tope Oseni, Owode-Ijako Unit TRACE Commander, who spoke on behalf of the Corps Commander, Mr. Seni Ogunyemi, made the appeal in an interview with the Newsmen on Friday in Ota.
Ogunyemi said that the advice became necessary following the behaviour of such drivers picking and dropping passengers due to the ongoing constructions works along the area.
He noted that there was the need for commercial vehicle drivers plying the axis to change their attitudes in order to bring unnecessary discomfort inflicted on motorists and other road users to an end.
“The drivers had become a threat to the free flow of traffic along the, because they flout traffic rules and regulations when picking commuters.”
“We are appealing to them to cooperate with our personnel by adhering strictly to traffic rules and regulations to minimise gridlocks”, he said.
Ogunyemi enjoined commercial vehicle drivers against wrong overtaking and nefarious acts that could endanger the life of other road users which could lead to mishaps on the highway.
The TRACE Chief reiterated the corps’ commitment to continue to cooperate with other traffic agencies to ensure safety of lives and property as well as reduce gridlocks to the barest level in the state.
In an efforts to end incessant casualties resulting from road mishaps in the state, the Katsina state Government has inaugurated Katsina Road Safety Advisory Council.
During the inauguration on Wednesday, Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State said the council is an advisory body to the the Technical Working Group (TWG) which is expected to drive the Nigerian Road Safety Strategy III (NRSS III) from 2021 to 2030 in the state.
The Governor, who was represented by his Deputy, Qs. Mannir Yakubu, said the body is a replica of the National Advisory Council on Road Safety (NARSAC) at the national level.
The Chief Press Secretary to the Deputy Governor, Ibrahim Musa Kallah in a statement on Wednesday said the Governor noted that the Council is expected to fashion out for the state a robust strategy that will give birth to an enduring road safety in the state.
The Governor then urged members of the council to serve as a guide for the technical working group (TWG) to make katsina state roads the safest in the country where traffic crashes should result to no death cases or casualties.
He charged the stakeholders and the General public to make road safety everyone’s business, as captured in the NRSS III.
In the same vein, the Governor urged local Government Councils to leverage on the feat to ensure the take-off of the program in their respective local Government areas by inagurating the local government road safety advisory council.
He called on members of the council to put in their best to see that the menace of road traffic crashes become a thing of the past in the state and the country at large.
Members of the council include the state Deputy Governor, who is the chairman, and the State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC).
Other members are the Commissioner of Justice, Commissioner of Finance, Commissioner for Education, Commissioner for Works, Housing and Transport, Commissioner for Environment, the State Planning Commissioner, and representative of the Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE).
Earlier, the Katsina State Sector Commander of the FRSC, A. S. Tanimu, said the Nigerian Road Safety Strategy III (NRSS III) 2021 – 2031 is a second edition of an action plan to improve road safety in Nigeria to align the country’s safety management approach with global best practices.
He said the programme is designed to promote the application of five pillars matrix to the decade of action for Road safety which is the application of the safe system approach to Road safety.
He enumerated the five pillars five pillars to include, road safety management, safer road and mobility, safer vehicle,
safer road users, and post-crash response or care.
Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, TRACE, has pledged to guarantee effective traffic management, prompt rescue service on Ogun traffic corridor and ensure strict adherence to Covid 19 protocols and guidelines, so as to flatten the curve of the pandemic during and after the Eid-el-kabir celebration.
According to a release from the office of the TRACE Corps Commander/Chief Executive, Cdr. Abdul-Fatai Olaseni Ogunyemi, the exercise would involve the full strength of TRACE Corps operational machinery, which is geared towards promoting the safety of all road users, by deploying operatives to man strategic beats, choke points, as well as, diversion and construction zones across the state to check the excesses of recalcitrant motorists and their overbearing attitude.
Furthermore, the release states that TRACE Corps, in collaboration with other sister agencies, would enforce the Covid 19 guidelines, more so that a high volume of human and vehicular movement is envisaged, with its attendant traffic build-up, breakdown of ill-maintained vehicles, obstruction and road crashes.
While wishing all Muslim faithfuls Happy Eid-El-Kabir celebration, the TRACE boss enjoined all motorists to ensure strict compliance to traffic rules and regulations and in addition observe and uphold Covid 19 protocols for the safety of all.
However, for feedback calls, in case of emergency situations, the motoring public should call these hotlines: 0703 411 0281 (Text only), 0810 179 2333 and 0803 491 9165.
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