Establish Road Safety Clubs In Secondary Schools - Soyinka

            

Professor Wole Soyinka, who was the pioneer chairman of the FRSC when it was established about 30 years, has called on the management of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) to form road safety clubs in secondary schools across the country as a way of enhancing the activities of the Corps.

Professor Soyinka made the call yesterday at Asero Motor Park, Abeokuta, Ogun State during the road safety advocacy mega rally with the theme: ‘Towards an enduring safe road culture in Nigeria.’

Soyinka, who said the FRSC had been repositioned over the years for effective performance, noted that there was the need for the agency to reach out to students in secondary schools to imbibe road safety culture, “just as there were Press Clubs”. He said: “I must commend the Corps for their commitment to duty.

It must be stressed that they had repositioned the agency for better performance. I want to recommend that the FRSC should ensure Road Safety Clubs are formed in secondary schools, just as there are Press Clubs in these schools.

The FRSC is the preventive medicine against accident on our roads.” The Corps Marshall, FRSC, Mr. Boboye Oyeyemi, said the programme was part of the agency’s three-pronged strategy of advocacy, education and enlightenment, towards reducing accidents on the roads.