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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Friday ordered all its officers to ‘immediately resume’ operational activities in all formations of the Corps across the country.
Recall that TheNewsGuru.com, TNG in an investigative story published on Thursday noted the conspicuous absence of law enforcement agencies and traffic officers including the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, (LASTMA) and Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on major roads in Lagos and the consequent gridlock experience, the General Manager of LASTMA, Olajide Oduyoye has explained why officials of the authority stayed off the road.
A two-day tour of the fifteen out of the twenty local governments in the state by TNG correspondents showed that the police, LASTMA, FRSC and other agencies were conspicuously absent on the road. This development led to gridlocks on major highways with thousands of commuters stranded.
However in a statement on Friday, FRSC Corps Marshal, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, ordered all the officers of the Corps to return to their duty posts.
The statement titled, ‘Go Back To The Roads, Corps Marshal Orders Personnel, Mourns The Victims Of Enugu Crash,’ was signed by the Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem.
According to the statement, Oyeyemi instructed all Commanding Officers to “keep the roads safe, enforce maximum compliance to road traffic regulations and safety guides as well as forestall incidences of crashes and fatalities on the highways.”
He said the Corps was not dispirited by the attacks on some of its properties by hoodlums, adding that “the Corps is still deeply committed to the full realisation of its corporate mandate” which includes keeping the roads safe at all times.
Oyeyemi assured the personnel that everything humanly possible must be done to safeguard the lives and properties.
The FRSC boss also mourned the victims of an auto crash in Enugu State where 21 persons lost their lives on Wednesday.