Corps Marshal Boboye Oyeyemi Urges For Relocation of Markets From The Highways

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In an effort to make the highways safer and eradicate all incidences of road traffic crashes and it’s attendant fatalities, the Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) , Dr Boboye Oyeyemi , has urged Administrators of Local Governments in the country to relocate markets from the highways. He said that doing so will help the existing operational efforts of the FRSC towards promoting the safety of the entire motoring population.

In a Statement by the Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, the Corps Marshall made these known when he bemoaned the traffic crash that claimed lives at the Ibaka area of Akungba Akiko, Akoko South-West of Info state on Saturday evening.

According to The statement, the crash occured when a DAF truck loaded with bags of rice rammed into the stalls in the market and also crashed into a Toyota Camry Saloon car, a Toyota Corolla and 3 other motorcycles. The crash involved a total of 23 people of which 16 died and 7 were rescued with different degrees of injuries .

The Corps Marshall decried the rising number of casualties dues to the result of building markets by the highways.

He said that the strategies which the Corps has mapped out to curtail such incidences won’t work if Government at the grassroot did not rise to relocate those markets.

The Corps Marshal commiserated with the families of the victims, while advising roads users to be more disciplined, service their vehicles regularly and maintain speed limits, especially at crowded places like markets.

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