Federal Road Safety Corps has deployed thirty-one thousand personnel to highways across the nation to ensure safety and free flow of traffic throughout the Sallah celebration.

The corps said the personnel included sixteen thousand Regular Marshals and fifteen thousand Special Marshals, ten tow trucks and ambulances.

Its Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi, who made this known said celebration like Sallah was characterised by upsurge in traffic and impatience among motorists on highways.

Oyeyemi said the personnel and logistics would be deployed in twenty-three designated critical corridors and black spots, including Lokoja-Benin-Auchi, Abaji-Lokoja, Abuja-Keffi-Akwanga-Hawankibo-Jos and Minna-Birnin-Kebbi-Sokoto-Gusau-Funtua-Zaria highways and sixty-five other routes.

According to him, the corps’ twenty-four emergency ambulance response centres located at designated routes across the country, FCT, Kaduna, Gombe, Jgawa,Taraba, Niger, Kogi, Ondo, Edo, Osun, Nassarawa, Plateau and Kwara states will be operational throughout the period.

Oyeyemi restated the corps commitment to reducing road traffic accidents by fifteen per cent and fatalities by twenty per cent in twenty-sixteen.

He said operatives of the corps had been directed to remove obstructions from the highways and called on motorists to abide by traffic rules and regulations.