Easter: FRSC Deploys Personnel, Patrol Vehicles, Motorbikes

THE Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has deployed personnel and 1,186 patrol vehicles and motorbikes to enhance road safety and traffic management during the Easter celebrations nationwide.

This is contained in a statement by the FRSC Spokesman, Mr Olusegun Ogungbemide yesterday in Abuja.

The Corps Marshal of the FRSC, Shehu Mohammed, has directed Commanding Officers of the corps to ensure the deployment for prompt removal of obstructions and ease of movement on all highways across the country.

This, he said was is in line with the operational guidelines of the year 2025 Easter special patrol scheduled to commence from Thursday to April 23.

Mohammed said that the objectives of the special operations were reduction in Road Traffic Crashes, (RTCs), Road Traffic Fatalities, (RTFs) and Road Traffic Injuries, (RTIs).

According to him, these includes; prompt response to road traffic crash victims; unhindered in purposeful public education and speedy removal of obstructions from the highways, among others.

He assured members of the public that in achieving the objectives of the special operations, the Corps would combine the engagement of the motoring public through purposeful and impactful public education programmes.

This, he said, included strengthening of surveillance activities to regulate unprofessional excesses, sustain effective patrol operations, as well as adequate monitoring on the highways. The FRSC boss expressed confident that the celebration would be a huge success with the massive deployment of personnel and logistics and the envisaged public support.

…Sets Up 200 Mobile Courts

THE Federal Road Safety Corps, (FRSC) has set up over 200 mobile court operations to prosecute traffic offenders during the Easter special patrol operations across the country.

The Corps Marshal, Malam  Shehu Mohammed said this in a statement by the Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO) Olusegun Ogungbemide, yesterday, in Abuja.

Mohammed said the mobile courts which were set up to ensure a safe and smooth 2025 Easter celebration nationwide from Thursday to April 23.

He said that for effective monitoring and prompt response, the Corps had also put in place a Situation Room at the National Headquarters to monitor the activities across the country.

This, he said, would be to collate and process information for dissemination to relevant commands and stakeholders as the case may be.

“To this end, the corps would carry out aggressive enforcement including conducting over 200 Mobile Courts operations, with the aim of checking the following offences.

“Speeding and dangerous driving, overtaking, lane indiscipline/route violation, road obstructions, use of phone while driving, overloading, seatbelt/child restraint use violations.

“Also including are passenger’s manifest violation, operation of mechanical deficient and rickety vehicles, latching and twist-locks violation, among others,”he said.

Mohammed also directed the Commanding Officers to liaise with other strategic stakeholders within their operational areas to secure the needed moral and logistics as well as security support.

The FRSC Corps Marshal identified some of the stakeholders as Military formations (enroute or resident); the Nigeria Police (enroute or resident); DSS (enroute or resident); the Nigeria Immigration Service; the NSCDC (enroute or resident).

“Others are the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing; National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA); State Traffic Management Agencies,’’ he added.