Security experts have called for synergy among security agencies to enhance programmes and measures aimed at promoting road safety for all.
The experts said this in their various presentations at a seminar held at the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Command and Staff College, Udi, Enugu State, Nigeria, on Thursday.
The seminar, the concluding seminar for Senior Course One, 2021, of the college, was themed: “Enhancing Road Safety Partnership for Innovative Intervention”.
Dr Augustine Aipoh, Chief Executive Officer of Ideal Safety Consultant, Abuja, said that there was need for FRSC officers to take advantage of other security agencies’ moves to enhance their service delivery to the public.
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Aipoh, who took the key paper that centred on the theme of the seminar, said that the corps needed to identify those that have something to offer to enhance road safety and do more to draw them close to tap from all they have to offer.
“In improving partnership, FRSC officers have to think outside the box and at times take-in innovative ideas from other agencies and organizations to better the lot of road safety management in the country,” he said.
Aipoh, who retired as an Assistant Corps Marshal in the FRSC, noted that at times, you might have an internal or a joint partnership small standing committee or group to critically look at difficult road safety issues from all sides.
“Through this collaboration on critical issues that requires brainstorming of various stakeholders, we have at times brought resolutions and solutions to solve pressing or difficulty road safety or traffic flow issues,” he said.
Mr Felix Attah, a retired Director, Department of State Security (DSS), said that “no one security agency is truly self-sufficient” in carrying out safety and security issues.
Attah, who delivered a paper on “Enhancing Road Safety Partnership for Innovative Intervention”, said that every agency and every individual matter in the issue of safety and security.
“You as an officer or commander must create time to get to know people, especially head of other security agencies within your jurisdiction to make for seamless relationship and understanding of both organizations or formations,” he said.
Mr Chamberlain Asuoha, an Abuja-based security consultant, urged officers of the corps to reach out and synergise with other sister agencies even beyond the official level with a view to gathering vital intelligence to aid their work.
Asuoha, who retired as a Director, DSS, also urged the officers to synergise with gun-wielding security agencies to ensure that officers and men on road duties are given adequate protection against hoodlums.
The Chairman of the seminar, Mr Wole Olaniran, a retired Deputy Corps Marshal of the FRSC, urged commanders and officers to be proactive and resilient in the face
of any difficult situation.
“We must be committed and ready to make necessary sacrifices to push the road safety work as well as think out innovative programmes and measures to continue to improve on our service delivery to Nigerians,” Olaniran said.
The Commandant of the college, Deputy Corps Marshal (DCM) Nseobong Akpabio, said that the seminar is the first seminar at the college.
Akpabio said the seminar has been so enlightening to the participants and other officers from zones, sector commands and units who attended.
“The lecturers did justice to the various papers presented and made their delivery so interesting with practical experiences that kept everyone asking for more,” he said.
NAN recalls that the FRSC Command and Staff College is a single service institution established to train middle-level Tactical and Operational officers.
It was established in January 2020 as FRSC Command and Staff College and Assistant Corps Marshal Nseobong Charles Akpabio was appointed as the pioneer Commandant of the College.
Before the Establishment of the College, the Corps sent its officers to the Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC), Jaji, for either Junior or Senior Courses based on availability of slots for the Corps. The Products of the College have been a good representation of the AFCSC.
To beef up the capacity of the middle-level manpower of the officers’ corps, the Federal Road Safety Commission gave approval for the establishment of FRSC Command and Staff College in January, 2020. (NAN)
