FRSC to educate motorists on good driving culture

In its efforts to inculcate good driving culture into the minds of the motoring public, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Zuba, Gwagwalada area council, has put on measures to educate motorists with a view to reducing traffic snarl on the roads.
The commander- incharge of the area, Chorrie Muta’a, who disclosed this in his office on Monday, noted that the unit would continue to staging advocacy campaign in the motor parks, markets, churches and other strategic places in order to achieve its mandate.
Muta’a, who doubles as an Assistant Corps Commander (ACC), pointed out that the Corps used to embark on periodic enlightenment on tyre violation, over loading and route violations, just as he enjoined okada riders to stop using the highways.
The unit commander called on motorists to get a copy of a highway code, charging drivers to conduct daily vehicle checks more, “especially during the rainy season to ensure wafers, brakes, tyres, signals and headlight were functioning noted that the efforts of the corps to reduce accident by 15 per cent and death rate by 25 per cent is on course.” The FRSC officer also enjoined motorists to renew their driver’s licence as at when due and charged the public to go to designated FRSC licence centres to obtain genuine ones.
He appealed to the students of the College of Education, Zuba, to cultivate the habit of using the pedestrian bridge, noting that the act would “in no small measure save them from being knocked down by vehicles.