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From Okwe Obi, Abuja
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said it has no plans to abolish patrol points in Abia, Imo Ebonyi and Enugu States.
FRSC Public Education Officer, Olusegun Ogungbemide, in a statement, yesterday, said the clarification became expedient following reports circulating that the corps had initiated moves to that effect. He said the Zonal Commanding Officer, Zone 9 Headquarters, Enugu, Uche Chukwurah, who spoke during her visit to the Abia State Sector Command, Umuahia, was misquoted.
Ogungbemide said the corps plans to rejig the operational strategy and to improve the capacity of the personnel to respond promptly to distress calls through provision of functional operational vehicles, ambulances and motorbikes.
“…Nothing can be further from the truth as the statement was not only misleading, but capable of giving wrong information to unsuspecting members of the public on the intention of the FRSC management, on the ongoing operational rejigging not targeted at the Southeastern states of the country, but the nation at large.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the policy of rejigging the operational strategy of the corps as conceived by the present management, under Corps Marshal Shehu, is aimed at improving the capacity of the personnel to respond promptly to distress calls through provision of functional operational vehicles, ambulances and motorbikes; retraining of personnel for efficient rescue services and increasing the mileage coverage of daily patrol activities for increased presence on parts of the road network.
“Consequently, any meaning read to the original statement attributed to the Zonal Commanding Officer of Zone 9 Headquarters, to create the impression that the FRSC is abolishing or intends to abolish patrol in the Southeast, is distorted, misleading and should be disregarded.
“What the FRSC, as the lead agency in road traffic management and safety administration in Nigeria, and one of the security agencies charged with the responsibility of creating safer road environment, is doing is to work harder to improve on its quality service delivery and support to other security agencies through credible processing of database on drivers and vehicles,
which has nothing to do with the abolition of patrol points in the Southeast as alleged,” the statement read in part.
