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A new Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has resumed for duties in the Ogun State Sector Command of the Corps.
He is Corps Commander Clement Olafeminiyi Oladele.
A graduate of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, he obtained a Master’s Degree in Public Administration specialising in Public Finance in 1992, and had earlier in 1988 obtained Bachelor’s Degree in Administration at the same institution with a second Class Upper Division.
Prior to his appointment as the Sector Commander of Ogun on September 15, 2016, Oladele headed the Planning Advisory Unit of FRSC, where he supervised the Business Intelligence for the Corps and had then as basic responsibility, scanning of the environment for global good practice and the conversion of data into meaningful intelligence upon which the Corps makes evidence based decisions.
His office insulates the Corps from suffering from organisational surprises and guides the FRSC towards becoming a performance driven organisation.
Through the weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual performance matrix for the Corps, his office prepares and measures the FRSC’s corporate performance by marching strategies with corporate goals; flagging under performance and recommending measures for making the Corps delivers timely and efficiently on its mandate; meets customers’ expectations and conscientiously attain its goal of making the Federal Road Safety Corps truly transform into a fully digitalised world class organisation.
All these efforts eventually paid off as the FRSC has been recognised by the World Bank as the best example of a lead agency with the Nigeria road safety model recommended by the World Bank for emulation and replication by countries in Africa and Latin America. This is against the background that, Nigeria was earlier in 1980 adjudged by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as the worst country to drive a motor car.
Though FRSC’s SERVICOM rating was declared unsatisfactorily in 2006, through dint of commitment and organisational reforms, it won the SERVICOM rating of 3rd position in 2008, which improved to 2nd position in 2009 and peaked at the first position since 2010 till date.
FRSC is the first and only law enforcement organisation in Africa to be ISO 9001 Quality Management System certified. This feat makes FRSC Nigeria the fourth policing organisation in the entire world to be ISO 9001 certified. The FRSC recently got recertified with IS0 9001 QMS and is currently working on attaining the ISO 39001.
FRSC is already on the cutting edge and the reforms introduced in the production of the new driver’s license has brought diplomatic values to Nigeria which through reciprocity, holders of the new Nigeria’s driver’s license are recognised to drive with same in several European countries and many states in the United States of America.
Oladele was a member of the Presidential Team that visited the Republic of Sierra Leone, which today has culminated in Nigeria deploying road safety experts to assist Sierra Leone establish the country’s road safety agency.
Prior to his current appointment, Oladele had served as the Adamawa State Sector Commander, between 2009 – 2010, where through his introduction of community road safety, he raised the State Command’s profile to an enviable height by forging an unprecedented cordial relationship between the FRSC and the State Government. Above all, he surpassed the Commands’ annual set target of reducing by half within only eight months the rate of road crashes in Adamawa State.
As Deputy Corps Commander Planning, he was instrumental to the development of FRSC’s Strategic Road Map upon which the Corps strategic programmes and activities are anchored. He also formed the nucleus for the development of Nigeria Road Safety Strategy which was approved by the Federal Executive Council for driving road safety in Nigeria.
He served as the Secretary of the Committee for Annual Rating of Road Safety in the 36 Sates of the Federation and FCT under the Chairmanship of the Vice Chancellor, National Open University. The Committee has as members the National President of Nigeria Bar Association, Nigeria Medical Association, Nigeria Society of Engineers, Nigeria Union of Journalist and the National Union of Road Transport Workers.
Apart from his position as the General Staff Officer (GSO), office of the Corps Secretary between 2003 -2007, Oladele had worked in various parts of the Country at Sokoto, Ilorin and Gwagwalda, serving as Operatios, Logistic, Motor Vehicle Administration and Special Marshal’s & Partnership Officer.
During the FRSC merger with the Nigeria Police, when he did his Junior Command Course at the Police Staff College Jos, Oladele won the Inspector General of Police Award, having emerged as the Best Graduating Course participant for JCC 36/2002 Course.
Trained by Price Water House Coopers (PwC) on Business Intelligence, other academic courses attended by Oladele includes Business Intelligence Course on Data Planning and Analysis at the Lagos Business School in 2011.
In 2012, he was trained at the Perpetual Edge School of Business Intelligence in Boston, Massachusetts, US. He is also Systems Application Programme trained on SAP Business Object Design and Analysis. Oladele obtained the International Computer Driver’s License Certification (ICDL) in 2013.
Oladele also attended a certificated course on Big Data: Making Complex Things Simpler at the Massachusetts Institute of Management (MIT) in Boston, USA. He also obtained a certificated course on Business Intelligence at the SAP Training Institute, Woodmead, South Africa in 2014.
In February 2016, Oladele was on an exchange programme to Sacramento in the US, where he attended the California Highway Patrol Academy (CHPA),, to understudy the operations of the California Highway Patrol Academy, USA.
Oladele, who is happily married with children, was promoted to the rank of Corps Commander in 2012 and his hobbies include reading, coaching, travelling and solving puzzles.
