The Federal Road Safety Corps, Ogun Sector Command has deployed 2,000 personnel, 50 patrol vehicles, and 10 ambulances, among others in a bid to maintain sanity and keep the road safe during the Christmas festivity.
According to The PUNCH, this was disclosed in a statement made available to newsmen by the spokesperson for Ogun State Sector Command, Florence Okpe, in Abeokuta, the state capital on Friday.
The special patrol operations, which kicked off on Friday, will run till January 15, 2024.
Okpe explained that the Special Patrol Operations would focus on dangerous driving and overtaking, overloading violations, tyre violations, use of drugs and intoxicating alcoholic beverages, violation of speed limits by all categories of vehicles, among others.
She pointed out that the agency would double the conduct of mobile courts to support the Special Patrol Operations across the road corridors in Ogun State.
The FRSC spokesperson said that traffic control areas to be manned by FRSC personnel and assisted by sister security and emergency agencies had been set up to ensure easy intervention to traffic distress from the boundaries of Ogun State with neighbouring states of Lagos, Oyo and Ondo states.
“Equally, all the FRSC ambulances points in Ogun State located at Siun, Itori; Sagamu; Ijebu-Ode and Ogunmakin, in addition to the night rescue teams at various FRSC formations will operate 24-hour rescue operations throughout the period,” she added.
