FG commissions FRSC’s signage production plant
The Federal Government has commissioned the signage production plant of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) in Abuja.
Speaking yesterday at the occasion, the Secretary of the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha, said the commissioning of the plant shows the Federal Government’s commitment to provide safe roads and prevent road crashes which always lead to destruction of lives and properties as well decrease in the nations GDP.
He warned that the Federal Government will no longer tolerate the vandalising of government road furniture and road signage. He called on all law enforcement agencies to arrest and punish offenders.
Mustapha called on state governments to use only standard road signs and signals on their roads and to produce them from the newly commissioned FRSC plant.
He urged the FRSC to carry out monitoring and evaluation of the impact from time to time to guide government road transport policy and ensure that the nation does not derail from this task that it has set for itself.
For his part, Corps Marshal of the FRSC, Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi said the research shows that the nation’s highway were characterised by improper signs and signals, which confuse motorists rather than aid them.
The plant, according to him, has the capacity to meet the nation’s road needs.
Chairman, FRSC Board of Trustees, Alhaji Bukhari Bello warned that supporters of politicians and religious institutions should desist from pasting their posters on road signages as it misleads road users.