The Federal Road Safety Corps has
said that drivers in the convoy of top officials of the Kogi State
Government have been shunning training programmes it organised for drivers of
top government functionaries in the country.
The Corps Marshal and chief Executive
of FRSC, Mr. Osita Chidoka, who said this while addressing reporters on the
activities marking the 2013 Africa Road Safety and World Day for remembrance
for road traffic crashes victims on Thursday in Abuja, blamed the frequent road
crashes involving top officials of the state on unqualified and untrained
drivers.
He recalled the Tuesday accident
where the convoy of the state Governor, Captain Idris Wada was involved in an
accident that led to the death of a former President of the Academic Staff
Union of Universities, Prof. Festus Iyayi.
Chidoka, who said that the FRSC had
commenced investigation into the fatal crash, added that the outcome of the
investigation would be made public.
He said, “Unfortunately, the Kogi State
convoy drivers have not been involved in this training. I’ve just been told by
the Sector Commander that the governor had asked him to take all the convoy
drivers from Kogi State for this training, because, Kogi convoy drivers were
not involved in this training.
“Of the 700 convoy drivers we trained
in the last two years, none of them has been involved in any road crashes. The
only crash we have seen so far from convoy are from people that have not
attended our training.
“There are some vital things they
were taught on how to move on convoy. So, now that the governor had directed
his people to be trained, we have also advised him to bring some FRSC officials
into his convoy because many of the state governors who have had no crashes
have FRSC officials in their convoy.
He said, “You will recall that on
December 28, 2012, the Kogi governor had a crash, in which his ADC was killed,
on September 30, 2013, five people were injured in the deputy governor’s convoy
crash and also on November 12, 2013, the Kogi governor’s convoy was involved in
the second crash.”
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D governor himself was he trained on how to governor a state or does he even haf simple manners of life,wen he killed a human being of his kind n can't even turn back to show love n concern 4 d victims talkless of som1 dat is far more important than him as far as contribution to dis country development is concern,an elite like Iyayi,it shows d governor is an illiterate n an animal in human form,pity Kogi state sha,did anybody tell d governor he sent his children to school 4 education dat he just waited 4 too many accidents dat haf killed people b4 asking them to be trained,idiot
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