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  • ‘1,500 certified vehicles to convey electoral materials in Ondo’

    The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Ondo State command has listed 1,500 vehicles to convey electoral materials and Independence National Election Commission(INEC),staff during the forthcoming election across the 18 Local Government Areas of the state.

    Its state sector commander, Rotimi Adeleye spoke with reporters during the one-day capacity building and training organised for officer and men of the corps on Thursday in Akure, the state capital.

    Boboye said the vehicles would be used for the movement of items both security and non-security items to various locations across the state.

    According to him, “All vehicles to be use by INEC are going to be certified by FRSC in the state.

    “What i mean by certification, we ensure we look at the vehicle that all thing we are talking about the vehicles is in place.

    “We don’t want a situation where a vehicle will convey electoral materials and discover that there is no fuel in it or discover that break fail or something funny happened.

    “So, we want to ensure that all the vehicles to be engage INEC receive certificate from us before it engaged by INEC,” he said.

    The sector commander said that there was synergy between all the security agencies to ensure that the election was being conducted under condusive atmosphere.

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    According to him, all the personnel in the state command both in the state capital and outside are going to participate in the election except those who have personal challenges.

    He said the command had partner with the INEC in a program put together by national headquarters of FRSC on capacity building for all the officers and men of FRSC.

    His words “We are giving our officers and men training and to ensure that they are more professional in mind during election period coming up on Feb.16 and March 2.

    “We are using visually all personnel we have in the state apart from people who pregnant, sick or anybody that fill he or she has health challenged will be drop.

    “We have five commands in the state; Owo, Ore, Ikare, Ifon and Ondo town command which are fully engaged for the smooth election,” he said.

    Adeleye, who said machinery had been put in place to checkmate the activities of the personnel at the poll urged them to behave professional and shun anything that could indicted them  in their various posting.

    He said any personnel or officer found wanting would be sanction in line with the electoral guideline before other internal action follows.

    The commander however, noted that being in uniform of FRSC is not enough, stressing that they have put machinery in place to checkmate if there is any fake one.

    Adeleye urged them to put on uniform with their name tag provided by electoral body with identity card.

  • 36 die in road accident in Ondo state – FRSC

    The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Monday said no fewer than 36 persons had died in motor accidents in Ondo state from January till date.

    Sector Commander of the corps in the state, Mr Rotimi Adeleye, made this known at the 2018 African Road Safety Day and World Day of Remembrance of Road Traffic Victims, in Akure.

    The United Nations (UN) and African Union (AU) adopted third Sunday in November every year as World Day for the remembrance for road traffic victims. Theme for this year’s edition is “Roads Have Stories.”

    Adeleye said that FRSC was organizing a week-long activities to commemorate the event and to sensitize the living to the need to stem the tide of road traffic crashes.

    He said that there were some black spots on some roads, including Oka-Akoko axis in North Senatorial District, Akure-Owo axis, Ore-Lagos Expressway and Onyeragbulem Junction in Akure, where accidents often occurred in the state.

    “On May 29, 16 lives were lost to road crashes in Oka-Akoko, with 13 of the victims burnt to ashes without identification.

    “On Jan. 21, along Akure-Owo road, near Celestial Church by Agbogbo Junction, eight people died on-the-spot in an accident.

    “In the same vein, on July 15, at Ogbese in Akure North Local Government Area, eight people also died.

    “Also, the most recent that claimed lives of a family at Onyeragbulem junction in Akure occurred on Oct. 3 when a mother with her two children and elderly woman died,” he said.

    Adeleye said that the crashes were caused by commercial drivers, but stated that the command had introduced enforcement to the section on any erring driver of speeding.

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    “We have put enforcement in place, if you traverse the state and you are speeding and you are apprehended, we are ready to delay you for two hours.

    “With this enforcement, it will put some senses into theirs head so that when you get to Ondo state you will reduce your speed and put some senses in your driving culture,” he said.

    The commander said that the effects of the crashes were felt not only within the immediate families but in the extended and nation “because it depletes it virile workforce’’.

    He, therefore, called on major stakeholders and road users to join hand with the command to make the roads safer, especially during the yuletide.

    “Road safety is everybody’s business; therefore, everybody should be involved in one way or the other in making our highways safe.

    “We are all aware that government alone cannot effectively fund road safety programs, neither can a government agency like FRSC single-handedly deal effectively with road safety issues,” Adeleye said.

    While speaking at the event, the Ondo state governor,Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, commended the efforts of the FRSC in reduction of road crashes in the state.

  • Sallah: 14 passengers cheat death in Ondo

    Fourteen persons in transit on Tuesday reportedly escaped death when an articulated vehicle laden with gas fell on a commercial bus on Ore-Lagos highway in Ondo State.

    According to the Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps State (FRSC), Rotimi Adeleye, the gas laden truck lost control and fell on a 14-seater bus parked at a restaurant on Ore-Lagos expressway in Odigbo Local Government Area of the state.

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    The FRSC official said “A tanker laden with gas lost control and hit the side of the bridge, it thereafter a fell on a 14-seater passenger bus parked in a restaurant at Ore.

    “However, no life was lost; all the passengers in the bus were outside the vehicle when the crash occurred”.

    He said passengers had already disembarked from the bus to eat in the eatery when the incident occurred.

    Adeleye noted that explosion and gas leakages would have happened if the truck driver had failed to install stock valve in his vehicle

    He warned truck drivers to always install relevant road safety gadgets in their vehicles in order to guard against explosion or gas leakage during crashes.

     

  • Three dead in Ondo road crash

    A fatal road accident involving a timber lorry laded with logs and people sitting on top of it has colluded with an in-coming Hilux Toyota van, claiming three lives on the spot.

    Others injured were rushed to the Ondo State Specialist Hospital Ikare-Akoko by men of the Federal Road Safety (FRSC) Ikare Unit Command for treatment.

    The accident occurred along Ikare-Agbaluku-Arigidi Akoko road.

    The Sector Commander, Ondo FRSC, Rotimi Adeleye blamed timber lorries for the way they load logs on lorries and sit on the top of vehicles.

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    According to him, the act is unacceptable, stressing that they did not have regards for their lives.

    Adeleye noted that he had discussed the issue of timber lorries with Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu on how to reduce the menace.

    The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of State Hospital, Ikare, Dr Wale Oguntuase confirmed the death of three persons in the morgue, one with head injury referred to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Owo and others with various degree of injuries.

    The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) for Okeagbe-Akoko, Adetarami Ibitayo, a Superintendent of Police (SP) has made arrangement for the removal of the vehicle.

    He added that investigation had commenced on the matter.

    An Observer, Kehinde Ojuolape lamented that Ikare-Agbaluku-Arigidi road had recorded many road accidents in the recent times and called for the construction of speed breakers.