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The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, has felicitated with the Muslim faithful in Nigeria as they join others across the world in celebrating the Eid-EL-Fitri following the successful completion of the one-month fasting period, enjoining them to celebrate the feast with care and obey the traffic rules and regulations as they move about during the Eid-El-Fitri celebration.
The Corps Marshal gave the admonition in his Eid El Fitri message as he congratulated the Muslim faithful for obeying the injunction of the Almighty Allah by abstaining from food and drink in the daytime within the month while intensifying prayers and other spiritual activities to please the creator. Oyeyemi, who expressed satisfaction with the level of compliance with the traffic rules and regulations during Ramadan, however, called for sustained vigilance on the road during the celebration and beyond in the collective resolve to restore sanity to the nation’s highways.
The Corps Marshal particularly warned drivers against certain traffic violations including speeding, overloading, route violation and dangerous driving as well as making use of the phone while driving. He identified these offences as the factors responsible for most of the fatal crashes that have been recorded on the nation’s highways in the recent past.
He stressed that in view of the need for crash and obstruction -free celebration, the National Headquarters of the Corps has deployed adequate number of personnel and logistics to the identified black spots and corridors across the country for effective traffic management. He appealed to all road users to cooperate with the patrol and rescue teams as well as supervisors and other security agencies and volunteers who are out to ensure compliance with the traffic rules and regulations for a crash and obstruction-free environment during the celebration and beyond, saying road safety is a shared responsibility.
