A special team of the Federal Road Safety Corp led by its Corp Marshal and Chief Executive, Boboye Oyeyemi, has visited Secretariat of the Women Arise in Lagos on a special work meeting to engage the civil society in a target for safe road practices among all Nigerian users.

The visit, Boboye said was part of activities of the FRSC to engage all major stakeholders of the Nigerian society in order to ensure circulation of a mass re-orientation of road users for safe driving behaviors on Nigerian roads.

The team decorated leader of the Women Arise, Joe Okei-Odumakin as an Honorary Corp Marshal, indicating she has become an ambassador for Road Safety practices campaigns in the country.

Speaking on the relevance of the visits and the decoration of Joe Okei-Odumakin as a special honorary Corp marshal, the FRSC Chief Executive said it became imperative to enlist the prominent activist’s crucial voice in the advocacies of the FRSC.

Boboye said safety was a duty for everybody to ensure, making it a task that the FRSC staff cannot handle alone, but with involvement of every leader of groups in the society.

He also emphasised the need for FRSC to meet the United Nation’s goal to reduce road crashes by 50%, citing that Ghana was presently leading Nigeria in this respect.

Boboye said it becomes necessary to go beyond old routines and get persons of goodwill, such as Okei-Odumakin on board to spread the message of safe road practices on Nigerian roads.

While responding to the FRSC team and their gesture, Okei-Odumakin assured that she’ll deploy her new status for the improvement of advocacies for safe road use practices in the country.

She stated that the office, where she has been visited houses three different organizations; Women Arise, Center for Change and the Nigerians Unite Against Terror.

While addressing journalists after the decoration event, the FRSC Corp Marshal addressed an incident which was reported between officials of the FRSC and wife of Speaker of Abia State.

He said it shows simply that his men were doing their job.

Okei-Odumakin similarly applauded the handling of the matter by authorities, while calling also for obedience of everyone citizen, regardless of how highly or lowly placed, to the rules of safety created for road users.