From Joseph Amedu, Lokoja
Worried by the high rate of auto-crashes across Kogi state, Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo has expressed readiness to collaborate with the Federal Road Safety Corps(FRSC), on Enlightening road users to embrace traffic regulations that would reduce the trend to the barest minimum.
Ododo gave the indication through the State’s Commissioner of Information and Communications, Kingsley Fanwo, when he called on the Kogi State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, in Lokoja on Tuesday.
Fanwo conveyed Governor Ododo’s serious concern over the loss of innocence souls occasioned by incessant road accidents in recent times and called for joint efforts by the FRSC, Govt and Road Maintenance Agencies to tackle the bad development.
He said that the recent auto-crash along Obajana road that claimed the lives of 19 people and left other eight seriously injured is a case in point.
“The Kogi state government is committed to using the state owned media organisations and that of the federal and other online platforms in conjunction with the FRSC to carry out aggressive enlightenment on ways to keep our roads and people safe”
He commended the efforts of the Kogi State Command of the FRSC in ensuring that our roads remains free from any form of accidents and urged the Sector Commander to sustain the tempo.
Responding, the Kogi State Sector Commander of the FRSC, Kumar Tsukwam, assured Governor Ododo of his preparedness to embark on the partnership enlightenment project with the state government in order to arrest the escalating cases of road mishaps on our highways.
“I intend to immediately constitute an enlightenment committee comprising of road agencies, medical, the media and government that would facilitate the success of our aggressive public engagement to avert road accidents” the Sector Commander promised.
