The management of the
Federal Road Safety Commission has postponed this year’s edition of the FRSC
Annual Lecture Series, earlier slated for this week Wednesday, 11 December,
2013 at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Abuja, with the theme: “Safer
Roads: A 21st Century Development Challenge”.
According to the Corps
Public Education Officer, Corps Commander Jonas Agwu, the postponement was
necessitated by the demise of the African icon, Dr Nelson Mandela, who died on
Friday last week in South Africa and the engagement of some key stakeholders for
the lecture, in his the burial rites.
This year’s edition of
the FRSC annual lecture, which was to be delivered by His Excellency John
Dramani Mahama, President, Republic of Ghana as guest speaker, was structured
to focus on developmental challenges confronting safer roads in Africa as part
of measures to stimulate public discourse and action on the developmental
challenges towards realizing set goals for safer roads in the African
continent.
Speaking further, Jonas
added other events lined up for the annual lecture such as the command
performance of Prof. Wole Soyinka’s play, ‘The Trial of Brother Jero’ , in
honour of the Ghanaian President; also scheduled for the same date, has also
been postponed.
In view of this
development, the Federal Road Safety Corps regrets any inconveniences this
postponement might have caused its invited guests and stakeholders even as a
new date will be announced in due course.
It would be recalled that
the Former Secretary of Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku was guest speaker at
the inaugural edition of the FRSC annual lecture series in 2009 with the theme:
“Sustainable Development and Road Safety” while the National President of
International Road Federation, KK Kapila was guest speaker at the 2010 edition
on “Decade of Action on Road Safety: Imperatives for Developing Economies”.
Other previous speakers
include the Adjutant Professor in Transport Engineering and Injury Prevention
at the La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, Prof. Richard Tay in 2011,
with theme: “ Achieving the Decade of Action on Road Safety: 2011-2020” and
last year’s theme was “ Safe and Sustainable Transportation: Lesson for
Nigeria” with the President and Chief Executive Officer of the American
Association of Motor Vehicle Association (AAMVA), Neil Schuster as guest
speaker.
Jonas Agwu
Corps Commander
Corps Public Education Officer
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