Last Thursday, February 27, was one of those days of convoys and howling sirens, as the governors made their way to the National Economic Council meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The noise was incessant, the convoys vexatious and the police escorts unruly, and speeding like demons on the chase, ignoring traffic stops and oblivious of other road users. It was sheer lawlessness!
The lamentation of the FRSC, like that in the Biblical “Book of Lamentations” by the Prophet Jeremiah, on the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 586 BC, with the subsequent Babylonian Exile, seems to be without any hope and redemption. I will return to this presently. As the governors waltzed their way to the Villa, menacingly, on that day, as is now the norm, other poor road users had to embrace road shoulders, where there exist, or simply squeezed themselves off the roads for their Excellences, the Feudal Masters. It is only those given to feudal tendencies, people who believe that they are next to God for simply being governors, that act in the way that these folks do.
Only a few days back, a former governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, had cause to express his amazement that when he was the helmsman of his state, he had a 30-car convoy, and most of the fuel/diesel guzzling SUVs and trucks were always practically empty. It is to his credit that he pruned down the apparently wasteful venture and is today celebrated for his parsimony.
The unceasing whining of the sirens and the dangerous manoeuvres of drivers of these public officials, are not only migraine-inducing but recipes for the psychological torture of the people, by those who ordinarily ought to be role models to other road users. It has become urgent and imperative that the police and the lead road safety agency, the FRSC, take seriously the National Road Traffic Regulation 2012. The guideline is aimed at eradicating road abuses, such as the use of sirens. For the avoidance of doubt, Section 154 of the Regulation lists 79 Nigerians as being entitled to the use of sirens.
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