GOVERNOR AKWEI DOMA TASKS ROAD USERS ON SAFETY CONSCIOUSNESS

Worried by the spate of recklessness among motorists in Nigeria, the Nasarawa State Governor Dr. Akwei Doma has charged the motoring public to strictly conform with traffic rules and regulations in order to ensure sanity on the nation’s highways.Speaking through the Deputy Governor,Chief Michael Abdul during the formal commissioning of the Federal Road Safety Corps’ Emergency Ambulance Service Centre at Keffi, the State Governor decried the monumental loss which the country face  in human and material resources through road traffic crashes ”It is lamentable that precious lives and property are being wasted on our roads through such unwelcome conducts. It must be emphasized that traffic rules and regulations must be observed at all times,” he added.

Earlier in his address, the FRSC Corps Marshal and Chief Executive, Osita Chidoka stated that the Keffi Emergency Ambulance Service Centre tagged “Zebra 5” is part of the Corps’ sustained efforts to replicate the four centres in the FCT in every state of the federation as part of strategies to ensure qualitative ambulance services and handling of road crash victims, rescue operations and increased response time to road crash situations across the country.

The Corps Marshal also added that global statistics indicated that worst victims of road carnage are those that fall within the productive
age bracket, which has a spiraling effect on the nation’s socio-economic growth. He therefore solicited logistics support from the Nasarawa state Governor to ensure that more centres are established in the state especially areas with frequent occurrence of road crash “I will call on His Excellency, Governor to support this scheme both morally and in terms of logistics by providing the enabling environment to aid our efforts to establish more rescue centres in the state especially in areas where we record road traffic crashes without available facilities for rescue,” the Corps Marshal stated.

It will be recalled that four emergency ambulance service centres were commissioned in August last year in the Federal Capital Territory with state-of-art facilities and specialized paramedics who were trained through a partnership arrangement at the Trauma Centre of  Usman Danfodio University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto.