The Federal Road Safety Corps has established over 200 mobile courts to try people who break traffic rules during the Easter special patrol operations in the country.
This information was mentioned in a statement on Wednesday by the corps Public Education Officer, Jonas Agwu.
Agwu mentioned that the mobile courts were created to make sure that the 2024 Easter celebration is safe and free from problems.
He quoted the Corps Marshal, Dauda Biu, as urging the commanding officers to ensure full deployment of staff for maximum visibility.
Biu urged them to make sure that obstacles on all highways across the country are promptly removed.
He said this was in line with the operational guidelines of the 2024 special patrol that will start from March 29 to April 2.
He said the goals of the special operations are to reduce road traffic crashes, road traffic fatalities, and road traffic injuries.
“The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Dauda Ali Biu, has tasked Commanding Officers to ensure full deployment of staff for maximum visibility, prompt removal of obstructions and ease of movement on all highways across the country.
“This is in line with the operational guidelines of this year’s Easter special patrol scheduled to commence from March 29 to April 2, 2024.
“As contained in the operation order, the objectives of the special operations are reduction in road traffic crashes, road traffic fatalities and road traffic injuries; prompt response to road traffic crash victims,” he said.
Additionally, Agwu mentioned, “To this end, the corps would carry out aggressive enforcement including conducting over 200 mobile courts operations, with the aim of checking various offences.
“Speeding and dangerous driving/overtaking, lane indiscipline/route violation, road obstructions, use of phone while driving, and overloading would be thoroughly checked.”
The corps stated that it deployed over 743 patrol vehicles, 184 administrative vehicles, and 92 ambulances for the Easter special patrol across the country.
