Children Day: FRSC charges parents, schools to encourage children join Road Safety Club

 Children Day: FRSC charges parents, schools to encourage children join Road Safety Club

by Kazeem Akande 

(NAN) The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Lagos Sector Command has charged the parents, guardians and proprietors at all levels to encourage their children and students Join road safety clubs in their various schools.

Mr Olusegun Ogungbemide, the Lagos State Sector Commander gave the disclosure on Friday at the annual children Day celebration organised by Ikeja Unit of the FRSC at Bishop Vinne Complex GRA Ikeja.

The sector Commander who was represented by Deputy Corps  Commander, Tajudeen Mafe, said that children needed to be encouraged on safety tips on the road for future purposes.

According to him, this is the right time to expose the little ones to rudimentary aspects of roads signs, traffic rules and regulations to ensure full compliance in the nearest future.

" As we all know that the children are the leaders of tomorrow, they need to be well enlightened at this tender age to ensure sanity on our road in the future.

Joining road safety clubs in their various schools will expose them to different road safety tips, signs and other preventive measures to curb craches on the road.

"We appeal to all the parents, guardians and school owners to encourage the children Join the road safety for better tomorrow on our roads," he said.

Assistance Corps Commander Emma Fekoya, the FRSC Ikeja Unit Commander said in her remarks that the children Day programme was put in place to allow the children be a road safety ambassadors wherever they found themselves.

"This is an annual programme made for school children to educate them on road signs and traffic rules.

"This programme will allow the children propagate the road safety rules and regulations to their parents and friends, with this development we can achieve safer road in the nearest future," she said.

Promise Ezeriaku, a Pupil of New City Primary School Ikeja in her remarks thanked the FRSC for the kind enlightenment given to them to mark the children Day.

According to her, she said that the programme has exposed her to many traffic rules and regulations in which she intend to pass the knowledge to other people.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that more than 10 schools participated in the enlightenment exercise which was tagged Use the Road Safely to Keep the Road Safe. (NAN)