From UBONG UKPONG, Abuja
The Federal Road Safety Corps[FRSC] yesterday said that about 280 people perished and 1,600 injured in road crashes across the country from December 19 to January 4, 2013. Corps Marshal of the FRSC, Osita Chidoka, made the disclosure while addressing newsmen at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, after carrying out aerial surveillance from the South-East Zone to Abuja.
He said these figures showed an improvement when compared with last year, adding that over 480 road crashes were recorded by the Corps within the same period. The FRSC boss disclosed that over 36,000 vehicles were stopped, 13,000 were booked, while 26,000 drivers of other vehicles were cautioned. Still speaking on the enforcement exercise on its Ember month programme tagged “ Operation Zero Tolerance”, he said 399 offenders were arraigned before the FRSC Mobile Court , noting that 370 were fined while 25 persons were discharged and acquitted by the court.
He further explained that only one person was sentenced to jail. Chidoka also stated that in the last ten years, the Corps has succeeded in reducing the spate of road crashes during the yuletide and New Year festivities in Nigeria. He added that the Corps efforts in managing the traffic gridlock across the country during this season have been very successful. According to him, “the FRSC has successfully brought down the rate of road crashes in Nigeria in the last ten years.”
He identified lessons and experienced gathered in the past operations, improved data collection and analysis, increased staff strength in the last one and half years and improved monitoring through the use of technology introduced by the FRSC management as being responsible for the success stories recorded by the Corps.
thank God for saving his people, tomorow wil be better
I will avoid air travel in Nigeria and opt for road transport. More people die by air transport in Nigeria contrary to popular world statistics, and we don’t even have people injured, everyone dies in air crashes. Only in international flights will I change my mind.
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Please I don’t understand. Look at your first sentence. Which December are you talking about. May be you are referring to 19 December 2012 to 4 January 2013
This is very outrageous record to find that such number died in less than a month.
What a lofty statistic to showcase! Hope Aso Rock & the Abuja politicians can hear the deafening applause of the Nigeria citizens in their respective constituencies. May your filthy, corrupt hands continue to drift with the blood of these injured and undeservedly innocent dead citizens whose wrong were just being created Nigerians and electing charlatans as political “representa-thieves”.
At the rate of deaths indicated above, Nigerians should be prepared to bury about 6,392 friends and family relatives due to road mishaps in this year. Similarly, our hospitals & clinics will be populated with over 36,525 persons suffering all manners of injuries and traumas due to road accidents. I say the FRSA boss’ figures are grossly misrepresented. The numbers are much higher, including both the reported and unreported incidences. We definitely deserve better in Nigeria: a country with so much wealth and potential, but is run by mindless, self-serving hoodlums!
The figure raised here is too fantastic irrespective of some rural areas where countless number accidents occur without records.The corps have achieved much more than previous years.More efforts is needed for even better result.