… As Nigeria loses 3% GDP to road crashes
The National Economic Council has endorsed the Nigeria Road
Safety Strategy (NRSS), just as the nation lost three per cent of her Gross
Domestic Product (GDP) to road traffic crashes, reports ITRealms.
Affirming this to ITRealms, the Corps Marshal, Mr. Boboye
Oyeyemi, said in Lagos, weekend that strategy comprises having a National Road
Safety Advisory Council (NaRSAC) to oversee the implementation of the NRSS
under the Chairmanship of the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.
As said by Oyeyemi, the structure of the road safety
management would include state governors as members in addition to members
drawn from stakeholders while the office of the corps marshal would act as the
secretary to the council.
He explained that the NRSS vision is to enthrone Nigeria as
country where Road Traffic Crash (RTC) results in no death with a goal of
reduction in road traffic crash fatality rate by 35 per cent by 2018.
The purpose, he said, is to widely adopt safe system
approach to road safety management in Nigeria, develop and utilize standard
templates to capture and report relevant traffic data, as well as implement
design standards for all road types.
NRSS, Oyeyemi said, has the mandate to expand the Road
Transport Safety Standardization Scheme (RTSSS) to cover all commercial vehicles
that ply interstate roads, develop and implement awareness campaigns on proper
road use in addition to providing supplementary medical equipment and emergency
rescue ambulances, among others.
Further, he said, NRSS would work on setting standard
National Road Safety Strategy target(s) by ensuring co-ordination between
Federal, States and Local Governments in achieving Road Safety targets.
In driving the implementation of the NRSS, FRSC is expected
to request for progress reports from relevant agencies, invite them to defend
proposed activities and road safety efforts on a quarterly basis, evaluate of
outcomes of National road safety initiatives, develop a funding plan for
strategic initiatives and seek fund for the implementation of strategic
initiatives, endorse disbursement of pre-approved funds for strategic
initiatives and monitoring of funds disbursement for strategic initiatives, to
name a few.
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