FRSC inducts 75 pupils into Cakasa road for safety enlightenment

FRSC inducts 75 pupils into Cakasa road for safety enlightenment

The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has inducted 75 primary school pupils in Mushin, Lagos, into the Cakasa Road Safety Club to enlighten them on the ethics of safety on the roads and at home.

The Cakasa Road Safety Club is an initiative of Cakasa Nigeria Limited and its CSR arm, Cakasa Ebenezer Foundation. The pupils inducted were drawn from New City Primary School, Palm Avenue Primary School and Oduduwa Primary School, all in Mushin Local Government Area.

The highlight of the ceremony, which took place, recently was the induction, where the pupils pledged their allegiance to the country and the FRSC to be of good behaviour in all their endeavours.

In his remarks at the induction ceremony, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Cakasa Nigeria Company Ltd and Chairman, Cakasa Ebenezer Foundation, Engr. Philip Yaro, represented by Assistant General Manager Quality, Health, Safety and Environment (QHSE), Mr. Martins Agbetuyi, expressed appreciation to the pupils for presenting themselves for training on safety. He said: “Children’s safety needs to be a central part of Nigeria’s national road safety plan.

We must agree that more needs to be done in our various communities to improve road safety for children, and more importantly measures should be put in place in order to prevent our children from being seriously hurt through road traffic collisions.

“Also, all Nigerian adults must be involved in children’s road safety. In their early years, children require a lot of help from older ones in their use of the road. They need specific assistance in detecting the presence of traffic and judging the speed and distance of oncoming traffic.”

Addressing the children directly, Agbetuyi admonished the children to listen attentively to their parents as they are being instructed on road safety.

Also speaking at the ceremony, FRSC Unit Commander, Ikeja Command, Mrs. Emma Fekoya, represented by Mrs. Ugochi Ikokwu said that the objectives of the command is to catch the pupils young and teach them the ethics of safety at home, school and on the road.
“The pupils would in turn teach their peers and relatives the importance of safety.” The Executive Director of the Foundation, Mrs. Helen Egbe said, Cakasa Ebenezer Foundation plans to inaugurate more Cakasa Road Safety Clubs around the country.

According to her, this is to ensure that the road safety culture is deeply instilled in children to prevent the traffic accidents involving children, which have been mainly unreported around the country.

She said: “It is imperative that every child must have that road safety consciousness. The more consciousness that exists in the children, the safer they will conduct themselves.”

Quoting statistics, Egbe said that traffic collisions is the number one cause of death amongst children aged 5-19 around the world and more than 500 children were killed everyday because of road traffic collisions, while tens of thousands were injured, often suffering lifelong disabilities.