FRSC: We target 5% reduction in road accidents this year

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says its goal in 2023 is to ensure a five-percent reduction in road accidents across the country.

According to NAN, Shehu Zaki, FRSC deputy corps marshal, spoke in Abuja on Saturday at the 2023 Special marshals sectoral workshop.

Zaki, who represented Dauda Biu, FRSC corps marshal, at the event, was addressing volunteers of the agency known as “special marshals”.

He said the collaboration of the special marshals with the corps would ensure the achievement of “FRSC’s 2023 corporate strategic goal”.

He added that road safety is a “shared responsibility” noting that reduction in accidents can help save the country’s human capital.

“It is, therefore, preventable. Road safety advocacy is not for the FRSC alone; rather, it is a shared responsibility involving us all,” the FRSC deputy corps marshal said.

“If we resolve today to play our roles in this task, Nigeria will be saving her precious human capital, and the time for action is now.

“People should remember that the attributes of a volunteer are delivery of services that must benefit others, and all services should be done without expectation of a reward.

“Road safety is a shared responsibility. Therefore, I congratulate you all on the work you do to reduce crashes on our roads.

“Together, we will ensure that the FRSC 2023 Corporate Strategic Goal in enhancing road safety partnership for innovative intervention and accomplishing a five percent reduction in road traffic crashes and injuries is achieved.”

In August, FRSC said 4,387 people had died due to road accidents from January to June 2023 across the 36 states and the federal capital territory (FCT).

The agency said the figure was a 26.2 percent increase from the number of road crashes recorded within the same time frame in 2022.