The Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mr Udom Emmanuel, has inaugurated a 25-member Technical Working Group of the State Road Safety Advisory Council.
According to a statement on Friday by the press secretary to the deputy governor, Mr Ekikere Umoh, the governor tasked the council and other critical stakeholders in the transportation sector to ensure that the nation’s roads were made both safe and secure for all motorists.
Emmanuel, who was represented by the Deputy Governor, Mr Moses Ekpo, on the occasion, said the committee was strategic to his administration’s efforts to sanitise the sector, and therefore urged the technical working group to be patriotic and committed to the task of ensuring a new dawn in the sector.
The governor noted that he was concerned about the safety of lives of citizens on roads in the state, adding that this informed the necessity for the “inauguration of the body to justify his administration’s huge investment on roads construction and infrastructural development.”
Earlier, the Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Akwa Ibom Command, Mr Matthew Olonisaye, who is also the Secretary of the State Road Safety Advisory Council, said the existence of the advisory council would help to “develop and deploy strategies needed to achieve the road safety vision.”
He further stated that the Advisory Council will help “design, deploy enforcement trainings and awareness campaigns for effective road usage, increase compliance with vehicle and other machinery standards, prompt effective emergency response and care by providing additional medical equipments as well as emergency rescue ambulances.”
