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FRSC inaugurates special intervention patrol, unveils 12 code-named operations
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has inaugurated a nationwide zonal special intervention patrol and unveiled 12 intelligence-driven operations across zonal commands to tackle persistent causes of road crashes.
The FRSC’s public education officer, Osondu Ohaeri, in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said the development was one of the agency’s most audacious and coordinated operational strategies in recent times.
Mr Ohaeri said that, effective Monday, all 12 zonal commands of the corps would simultaneously execute specially designed, code-named operations tailored to address the peculiar road safety challenges within their jurisdictions.
He said the specially designed code-named operations include “Operation Fushin Zuma” (Anger of the Bee) in Kaduna, “Operation Ride Safe” in Bauchi, “Operation Shark Smile” in Port Harcourt, “Operation ABO” (Safe Passage) in Lagos, and “Operation Sauka Lafia” in Abuja.
Others, he said, were “Operation Kasolayo” in Ilorin, “Operation Kwushi Ihe Mberede” in Enugu, “Operation Sanity” in Osogbo, “Operation Total Compliance” in Benin, “Operation Harbin Kunama” (Scorpion Sting) in Yola, “Operation Hadarin Kalangu” in Jos and Operation Daidaita Loading” in Zone 10.
According to him, the coordinated intervention manifests the corps’ resolve to confront specific traffic violations through intelligence-driven enforcement, robust public enlightenment, enhanced operational visibility, stakeholder engagement and strategic collaboration with sister security agencies.
“The operations and interventions deployed all have one overriding objective: to reduce road traffic crashes, save lives, and make Nigerian roads safer for all,” he said.
He added that the special intervention patrol was a strategic operational initiative approved by the Corps Marshal, Shehu Mohammed, to enable every zonal command to address its peculiar crash trends.
“This will be done through intensive enforcement, sustained public education, stakeholder engagement, rescue preparedness and enhanced operational visibility.
“It is designed to achieve measurable reductions in road traffic crashes by focusing on offences that have continued to claim innocent lives on Nigerian roads,” he said.
Mr Ohaeri quoted the corps marshal as describing the initiative as a decisive shift from conventional enforcement to targeted, intelligence-led operations capable of delivering greater impact.
According to Mr Mohammed, every operation has been carefully designed to confront specific dangerous behaviours responsible for avoidable deaths and injuries.
The corps marshal disclosed that the operations would involve massive deployment of personnel to highways, motor parks, loading points and other critical corridors.
“Complemented by sustained public enlightenment, stakeholder engagement and close collaboration with sister security agencies, this operation will guarantee effective enforcement and rapid emergency response,” he said.
He warned motorists, commercial vehicle operators and fleet owners to strictly comply with all traffic regulations, emphasising that violators would face firm but professional enforcement in line with the corps’ statutory mandate.
The corps marshal reassured Nigerians that the operations were not intended to punish law-abiding road users but to protect lives and property.
He called on members of the public to cooperate with patrol teams by obeying traffic regulations, avoiding dangerous practices such as overloading and mixed loading, and reporting reckless driving and other unsafe behaviours.
He further urged transport operators to embrace voluntary compliance, noting that road safety was a shared responsibility that demanded collective action from government, transport stakeholders and every road user.
He reaffirmed that every zone had a mission, and every patrol a purpose.
“Every operation is a commitment to saving lives,” he said.
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Trabzonspor of Turkey striker, Paul Ebere Onuachu is being tipped to take over full sponsorship of a one-day memorial football competition to be staged in honour of his first grassroots coach, Osahon Emokpae.
Sports247 gathered that the competition, which is scheduled to hold this Thursday at FHA Stadium in FESTAC Town, Lagos, is the brainchild of Nigerian Grassroots Football Federation (NGFF), of whose junior team Coach Osahon was the pioneer handler.
NGFF president, Pastor Oscar Ezinwa Emmanuel disclosed that the single day competition will be staged like a memorial carnival involving 12 teams, all of which were influenced one way or the other by Coach Osahon, who was until recently the caretaker committee chairman of Badagry Division Football Association (BDFA).
Pastor Oscar, who is also fondly called ‘TM,’ further disclosed that the competition, which will be staged on a knock-out basis, with games lasting only 20 minutes each, without any half time, will be graced by many esteemed personalities of football across Lagos State, Nigeria and abroad.
The competing teams will be led by Young Stars FC of Satellite Town, which Onuachu played for as a teenager, and from where Osahon took him along to FC Ebedie of Sagamu, when he became head coach of the club owned by Barrister Churchill Oliseh.
Other teams to feature in Thursday’s Osahon Emokpae Memorial Football Carnival include Young Eleven FC, CATS Boys FC, NGFF All Stars Selected, Vido 99 FC, ECAS FC and Golden Intercontinental FC.
Also listed to feature in the competition, which will run from 8am to 4pm at the popular terrain owned by Federal Housing Authority are Flying Sports Academy, SC Heritage, Santana Boys FC, Festiko FC and Awori United.
The NGFF scribe told Sports247 that the organising committee decided to woo Onuachu as the competition’s sponsor based on the fact that he is the late coach’s biggest product and he contributed immensely in efforts to stabilise the grassroots football zealot when the illness that claimed his life started.
“We know that Paul Onuachu really spent a lot on Coach Osahon’s medical bills, and we thank him so much for his efforts. It’s a good example he gave for other players to always remember the coaches that brought them up.
“In the same vein, we are solemly appealing to him to kindly take up the bill for this carnival that we want to stage in honour of Coach Osahon, a man who gave all his life to promoting youth football.
“We have a budget of just one million naira to cover things like refreshments, snacks, water, organisational needs, logistics, fees for referees, awards and other necessities.
“I personally appeal to Onuachu to take up this responsibility and, by the special grace of God, he will be blessed more abundantly in return. Good health will continue to follow him and he will soar higher.
“I know him as a caring boy, who has even given donations to his community in Imo State, for which God will also reward him exceedingly. Injury will mot befall him and he will have a sound mind on the field all the time. Amen,” Pastor Oscar prayed.
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