1,936 Lives Lost To Road Accidents Between January And June — FRSC

[Shola Sholaz]

FOLLOWING the alarming rate of motor accidents and deaths on the nation's high ways, the Presidency is partnering with the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, RTEAN, to check the wanton loss of innocent lives, even as the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, said no fewer than 1,936 lives were lost to road accidents between January and June this year.
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The commission's Public Education Officer, Mr. Jonas Agwu, released the statistics in Abuja, while presenting the half year report of the FRSC's operations in 2012 in Abuja.
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To this effect, the Presidency and RTEAN are mapping out strategies to jointly sanitise Nigerian roads to make driving pleasurable and to save lives In line with the new partnership, the Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Youths and Students Matter, Jude Image and the President of RTEAN, Musa Shehu, held a strategic meeting at the headquarters of RTEAN in Abuja.

[Folami David]

This is bad news as far as I'm concerned. This is no good @ all I must confess. Bad roads must be the cause of it....