The Director General National Council for Arts and Culture, Otunba Olusegun Runsewe, has sought collaboration with the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) to kick off massive sensitisation of the motoring public on the culture of safe road use.
Otunba Runsewe expressed the need on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, when led a delegation of top management staff of the organisation on a visit to the FRSC.
The visit, according to the Corps’ Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, was propelled by the need to join forces with the FRSC to ensure that more population of road users are reached with the message of safety to change bad driving culture and encourage motorists to imbibe the safest driving habits.
Speaking during the visit, Runsewe, who toured FRSC’s installations and facilities, commended the Corps Marshal, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi and the entire management for the state-of-the-art technology that had been deployed in the administration of safety on our roads, as well as the operational front respectively.
The Director General stated: “I was amazed at the deployment of the highest level of technology by the Corps, especially the vehicle and body cameras and the sophisticated technology at the operations monitoring room. The existence of the National Traffic Radio 107.1 FM and the traffic situation it gives to the motoring public is indeed commendable.
“With the efforts I have seen on ground, I think the Corps needs to be adequately funded to encourage the good work due to the sensitivity of their mandate.”
On partnership with the FRSC, Otunba Runsewe told the Corps Marshal that NCAC came with a home-grown idea that would enable the two agencies join forces through an aggressive sensitisation campaign targeted at changing bad road use behaviour in the country.
The campaign, according to him, would be targeted at bringing to an end some specific bad driving culture like use of alcohol and other substances by drivers, use of phone while driving, overloading of vehicles and many more.
Selected motor parks would be engaged to ensure that the desired result is achieved.
Responding, the Corps Marshal thanked the Director for his contributions to the growth of FRSC and the development of the conceptual framework for promoting road safety in Nigeria.
He assured the DG of the Corps’ readiness to partner at all levels of the campaign, including the deployment of jingles and other senstitisation tools for the realisation of the goals and objectives of the project.
