Bukola Afeni
The Leader of the Representatives of NGOs /CSOs on Road Safety matters in Nigeria, Dr Yusuf John Suberu, said there is an urgent need to inform and educate current and prospective road users on appropriate and relevant knowledge to ensure safer roads.
He enjoined drivers to operate within the regulated speed limits, and comply with traffic officers.
” We want everyone to drive with all consciousness to reduce the occurrence of accidents and save the future as it is better to be late by 20 minutes than be truly late forever”, he said.
He commended the World Health Organization for organizing the workshop to provide a platform for all stakeholders to further ensure safer roads and also improve on data collection of road-traffic related crashes and deaths.
Subaru also noted that Road Safety is very important to every country and several activities aimed at preventing the causes of accidents and reducing its severity have been carried out by relevant agencies of Federal Government of Nigeria.
“This has been done through coordinated formulation and implementation of life saving policies to ensure that road accidents are reduced by 50% in line with the United Nation Decade of Action on Road Safety 2021-2030”, he noted.
