Anambra sector to enforce traffic rules by deploying 2,000 marshals

According to the Anambra Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Mr Sunday Ajayi, the agency is putting more men on the roads.

Mr Sunday said this is to ensure that road users obey traffic rules and regulations during the festive period.

“As a command, we commenced our special Christmas/New Year traffic control enforcement on Monday. So people will be seeing us where otherwise we have not been showing presence because we had to bring our staff together to ensure that we achieve this. And we want to appeal to the general public at this point that as much as we assure them that our visibility will be very high at junctions and flash points, which we have identified already, we want people to be calm.

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We want people to show love for others, we want people to obey the law. We should shun lane jumping, we should equally shun excessive loading, excessive speeding, drunk driving during this period. If we do all these, we will get better. If we look at the regulars and the special marshals, we will be looking at over 2000 people to be on the road.”

Two months ago, the commissioner of police, Mr Fatai Owoseni, put more police officers on the roads to fight the increased traffic robbery in Lagos state.

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Will deploying more men force road users to obey traffic rules?