The Federal Road Safety Corps has unveiled strategies to combat Road Traffic Crashes (RTCs), shifting focus from motor park rallies to community-based initiatives across the country. The Corps Public Education Officer, Assistant Corps Marshal Olusegun Ogungbemide, said this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Ogungbemide said the corps was concerned about the loss of steam and relevance of the motor park rally style of reaching out to drivers and members of the public in its campaign for safer road environment.
He said that the corps had changed to the town hall meetings and press conferences as the alternative campaign strategies while not totally negating motor park rallies. Ogungbemide noted that over the years, the corps had always relied on the motor park rally method of public enlightenment programs by which drivers and travellers were gathered at the parks. This, he said were where road safety education and enlightenment issues were shared to them through interactive sessions with the participants.
He said, “But with increasing cases of lawlessness being displayed by drivers, mostly commercial and the fatalities recorded from road traffic crashes, the Corps has since discovered the impotence of such method. “This in which is where the main target audience are not readily available at the time of the rally. Consequently, a new method has to be worked out in alignment with developments in communication systems.
“The Corps Marshal, Shehu Mohammed, approved the use .
