An NGO, Ayo Adun Foundation (AAF) and Millennium Christian Ministry in collaboration with the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), on Monday, stressed the need to obey traffic rules and regulations to ensure security and reduce crashes on highways.
Speaking at the event tagged: ”Road Users Sensitisation Campaign” in Lokoja, the Executive Director of AFF, Mrs Mercy Adun, said the campaign was organised in honour of her late husband, Pastor Ayo Adun, who was a victim of road crash.
She explained that her husband passed on Dec. 26, 2021, following injuries sustained from a road crash on May 23, 2021, when his vehicle rammed into a stationary trailer at night with no caution signs.
She noted that the husband sustained brain injury from the crash which they battled for seven months before he eventually passed on.
”As the founder of Millennium Christian Ministry, my husband touched many lives, his driving force was affecting and impacting lots of lives during his lifetime.
”We didn’t want his vision for humanity to standstill and I believed that was his desires too.
”We are carrying on with his vision of impacting and affecting lives positively by shining light into where there is darkness,” she said.
In his lecture, entitled: ”Road Users Sensitisation on Safety”, FRSC Sector Commander, Kogi State Command, CC Stephen Dawubung, commended the foundation for the initiative, saying, ”safety is a shared responsibility.”
Represented by Route Commander, Ayodeji Oluwadunsin, the sector commander reiterated the FRSC’s mandate to ensuring sustained public enlightenment and stakeholders’ engagement to ensure safety on roads.
He commended the foundation for dimming it fit to organise such laudable programme for the road users, as contributing their quota of corporate social responsibility to the society.
He emphasised that driving required total concentration, avoid distraction, saying until we know this and do it, it will be difficult to ensure safety on highways.
According to him, there are three major causes of road crashes, which include Human, Environmental and Mechanical factors, but there is no crash on highways that does not have human input.
He noted that causes of road crashes include over confidence, speeding, distraction, overloading, lane indiscipline, route violation, bad tyres and driving under the influence of alcohol among others.
He, therefore, advised road users to ensure absolute compliance to all traffic rules and regulations to ensure safety on the roads.
He urged motorists to avoid night journey by all means for their own safety, stressing that traveling at night should not be promoted.
In his goodwill message, Mr Nathaniel Abaniwo, Coordinator of Kogi NGO’s Network (KONGONET), commended AAF for the initiative, and urged them to approach the objective with all level of seriousness and dedication.
He thanked AAF for giving him the opportunity to be part of the event, while assuring the foundation of the total support of KONGONET in the state.
The highlight of the occasion was the presentation of road safety items, such as caution signs, reflectors for cars, tricycles and trucks to FRSC for onward distribution to road users.
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