FRSC Takes Safety Advocacy to Hotels in Edo

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Sector Commander, Mr. Familoni Oluwasusi during an advocacy visit to members of Hotelier Association in Benin on Thursday, said that the delay in evacuation of crashed trucks from accident scenes in the state was as a result of lack of logistics.

“Of course, the only challenge now is that we lack heavy duty tow truck to easily evacuate crashed heavy duty trucks from accident scenes.

“We lost the only one donated by the World Bank worth N110 million to fire when a reckless tanker driver crashed into a rescue operation at the Ovia river early this year,’’ he said.

He urged road users to be safety conscious at all times when on the road so as to reduce incidences of accidents on our roads. He explained that the command is always willing to play its statutory duties of preventing and rescuing victims of accident within record times even when the command is handicapped by unavailability of needed logistics.

He lamented that the lack of effective logistics had continued to be the bane of the command’s easy evacuation of crashed vehicles from accident scenes.

According to him, the FRSC has never and will never abdicate its statutory responsibilities as Officers, Marshals and Special Marshals are regularly on patrol ensuring safer roads.

He noted that accident cases were attributable to unforeseen circumstances after even taking precautionary measures, and said that “crashes are results of preventable human errors on the roads."

“The command is therefore taking necessary steps to collaborate with stakeholders like your associations in its determined efforts at reducing road crashes to the barest minimum,’’ he said.

He concluded the visit with a colourfully presentation of designed fliers with safety tips for the hotel owners and managers to use in educating their guests by placing it in the rooms.