Nigeria’s Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has announced plans to commence training for drivers of all political appointees in the country.
The Chief Executive of the FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi, made the announcement on Monday in Abuja Following the death of the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, James Ocholi.
The FRSC boss said that the initiative would help improve the driving skills of drivers and reduce crashes on the nation’s highways.
“We have successfully completed about 75% training of convoy drivers involving State Government drivers and we are already working to also increase the tempo in the training of the drivers of the newly appointed members of the executive council which is very important.
“We need a kind of proficiency – driver’s improvement programme. If you observe of recent, we have done it for drivers at the State Government level involved in the convoy of governors, that is why you’ve seen a drop in the crash of governors.
“The death of Mr. Ocholi has forced me to fast track the training of the drivers of the members of the executive council so that all their drivers would get trained as appropriate on defensive driving techniques before the end of the month.
“The conduct of the training is very critical because we need to work with members of the Federal Executive Council especially the Honourable Minister of Power, Works and Housing (Babatunde Fashola), to ensure that all what is required as road furniture is put in place in respect of this.
“We have been getting maximum support from the Minister and I think that we partner more in respect of this,” Mr Oyeyemi said.
Mr Oyeyemi added that the report of investigation into the cause of the accident that claimed the Minister’s life would be ready in the next 72 hours.
