No fewer than 33,000 personnel and 859 vehicles would be deployed by the Federal Road Safety Corp (FRSC) nationwide for special patrol during the muslim festival, Eid-el-Kabir, to ensure free flow of traffic and check accidents.
Mr. Bisi Kazeem, the Corps Public Education Officer of the FRSC made this known in a statement on Tuesday.
He said to make the job easy during the period, 106 ambulances, 267 motorcycles and 22 tow trucks would be deployed.
The special exercise will take place from Thursday to September 6.
Kazeeem said the exercise would focus on traffic control, excessive speeding, dangerous driving/overtaking, clearance of obstruction, seatbelt use violation and use of phone while driving.
According to the spokesman, focus would also be on lane indiscipline and route violation which had been identified as recurring factors for road traffic accidents.
He advised motorists to adhere strictly to traffic rules and regulations as over 200 Mobile Courts had been set up to prosecute traffic offenders during the period.
He urged the general public, in the event of emergency, to notify the corps through its emergency line: 0700-call-FRSC (070022553772 or toll free number, 122, for prompt response.
Kazeem quoted the Corps Marshal, Mr. Boboye Oyeyemi, as wishing Nigerians, especially Muslims happy celebration and assuring them that personnel of the corps would be on ground to serve them.
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