FG Moves To Curtail Tanker, Road Accidents

The national authorities has pledged to guarantee capable provisions for the grooming and certification of motortruck and articulated conveyance drivers to curtail the menace of motortruck operator accidents.

The authorities besides assured that it volition root funds to instrumentality the operator grooming projects suggested by the nationalist assembly earlier successful the year.

Speaking astatine a gathering with the committee overseeing the task successful Abuja connected Thursday, the Minister of Transportation, Senator Said Alkali, said, “On receiving the ailment from the bureau of the nationalist information advisor and the aforesaid from the nationalist assembly, the honourable curate was moved. He moved into enactment and said this committee indispensable beryllium and beryllium effective. He is mindful of his mandate to supply Nigerians with safe, efficient, affordable transportation.

“So if harmless proscription is portion of it, your ngo here, driver’s training, has to beryllium portion of it. Because drivers indispensable beryllium trained and cognize what they are doing, I americium thrilled that each applicable stakeholders are here.
The cause instrumentality is here, the roadworthy information is here, the president of the Female Drivers Association is here, and your humble servant, the trainer, is here. So, I privation to commend you for your committedness to this cause.”

Speaking connected the project’s backing challenges, the minister, represented by the manager overseeing the imperishable secretary’s office, Musa Ibrahim, said, “We each cognize what budgetary issues are. If thing is not successful the fund of a peculiar bureau and it comes midway, generating wealth volition beryllium extra-budgetary. So you person to spell astir it and look for different ways to make the funds. We are moving astir the timepiece to get funding, and arsenic soon arsenic that is ready, we volition spell into the task fully.”

While speaking, Cynthia Ehindoro, a chairman’s representative, said the committee was acceptable for enactment arsenic soon arsenic capable backing was provided.

According to the committee chairman, “We admit your zeal for capable onshore proscription successful Nigeria, which was further affirmed by the caller support of the National Transport Policy and your occurrence successful getting the Federal Executive Council’s support of astir N142 cardinal to conception modern autobus terminals crossed the six geo-political zones. This is commendable and a singular landmark successful Nigeria’s onshore proscription history.

“However, arsenic important arsenic effectual transport is, it is adjacent much captious to guarantee the information of the roadworthy users.

We powerfully judge you are funny successful capable roadworthy proscription and safety, which are complementary. As you person demonstrated your capableness successful securing funds to conception the Bus Terminals, we firmly judge you tin besides root funds to instrumentality the driver’s re-training task to importantly trim and yet destruct the crashes which person hitherto led to the nonaccomplishment of galore lives and invaluable properties. Over 80 per cent of these drivers did not cognize everything they needed to guarantee harmless driving successful each situations. Many bash not person a valid Driver’s License, portion immoderate bash not adjacent person a Driver’s License.

“This committee requested this gathering with you to reiterate that the expanding complaint of roadworthy crashes (accidents) involving the drivers of articulated vehicles has made the projected retraining programme some important and urgent, to prevention irreplaceable lives and properties connected Nigerian roads.

“We besides judge that the occurrence of the retraining and recertification of the drivers volition further boost the show absorption scores (PMS) of the curate and the ministry.”