President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday felicitated with the management and staff of the Federal Road Safety Corps as the organisation celebrates 30 years of its establishment.
According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the President commended the vision of corps’ founding fathers in February 1988 in response to the unacceptable level of road crashes in the country.
“He further lauds the significant reduction in the emergency response time of the Corps from 50 to 15 minutes to accident scenes on the nation’s highways,” the statement read.“President Buhari notes with delight that after three decades of operations, the Corps reduced road crashes from an alarming 40,881 in 1976 to 5,993 in 2016 and 4,418 in 2017.
The President also commended the FRSC’s deployment of international best practices and use of technology in its uniform licensing scheme, tracking, vehicle plate numbering and other services.
“The recent United Nation’s commendation of Nigeria’s road safety action plan, affirms the Federal Road Safety Corps’ leading role not only in West Africa but the entire African continent,” he added.
