In a bid to boost pupil security and promote accountable street use, the Lagos State Authorities is about to revamp its Faculty Security Visitors Advocacy Programme.
A Tuesday assertion famous that the initiative, spearheaded by the Ministry of Transportation, goals to instill visitors security consciousness amongst college students, academics, and oldsters throughout the state.
Talking on the initiative, the Particular Adviser to the Governor on Transportation, Sola Giwa, emphasised that the programme wouldn’t solely educate college students on visitors guidelines but in addition equip faculties with the information wanted to foster a tradition of security.
He stated the federal government had recognized an absence of visitors information and poor street attitudes as key points contributing to gridlock and street security issues, noting that the initiative was a complete visitors security training programme for college students in private and non-private major and secondary faculties aimed toward catching them younger.
The Particular Adviser reiterated that the programme would additionally foster security consciousness and promote accountable street use by these classes of scholars instilling values in them at an early age.
“He talked about that the relaunch of the Advocacy Programme underscores the state authorities’s renewed dedication to visitors security training, representing a major step in direction of guaranteeing safer roads for Lagosians and making a traffic-conscious era.
“Giwa averred that almost all of business drivers {and professional} drivers within the state are both major faculty graduates or tried secondary training with out publicity to visitors security training, saying youngsters and younger folks share the street as pedestrians, passengers in automobiles or motorbikes, therefore the necessity for Visitors Security Schooling as a precedence of the state authorities,” the assertion stated.
The Particular Adviser added that the programme would offer youngsters and younger folks with the required abilities to develop into accountable drivers, passengers, pedestrians, cyclists, and above all, accountable residents.
He urged all stakeholders to help the programme.