The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has commenced nationwide education and enlightenment of road users and commuters in line with the presidential directives on COVID-19 prevention to ensure full compliance.

The Corp Marshal, FRSC, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, said this during the training of front desk officers and marshals on Wednesday in Abuja.

Oyeyemi noted that the corps had commenced full patrol enforcement, adding that the outcome of the resolution reached by the transport unions and FRSC birth the enlightenment and education.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the FRSC and road transports unions had on July 6 adopted resolutions to curtail the spread of Covid-19 pandemic following the lifts on interstate travel ban.

“We started with the preventive and educative approach before enforcement. We will educate all the drivers to ensure they do not carry more than the 50 per cent the government said.

“We have directed their various chairmen to meet with sector commanders in the states which they are doing already,” he said.

In the same vein, Oyeyemi said that the training scheduled for the front desk officers and marshals was in line with World’s effort to curb the menace of Covid-19 pandemic.

He said that it was a common knowledge that front desk officers of any organisation are always a mirror hence, the experiences of visitors at the front desk forms a lasting impression.

“The training today is not only premised on the Corps’ desire to continually improve on its service delivery.

”It also anchored on the corps strategic goal of improving personnel capacity and competence in road safety management.

“And above all, the resolve of the corps to improve the way it interacts with its customers especially during this COVID-19 pandemic.

”Also to ensure that our front desk officers adhere strictly to the COVID-19 protocol and FRSC management directives while discharging their duties,” he said.

Oyeyemi urged participants to internalise the messages contained in the series of lectures earmarked for the programme while working together to ensure that the corps remained COVID-19 free.

NAN reports that a total of 50 front desk staffs drawn from corps provost office, corps intelligence office and protocol unit were to be trained.

Participants were batched into two to ensure adherence to social distancing in accordance with the NCDC protocol.

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