The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved a new Nigerian Road Safety Strategy.
Minister of State for Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mr Clement Agba, disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of the weekly FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.
HE said the new strategy seeks to enhance road safety management, safer roads and mobility, as well as safer road users and post-crash care.
“I presented to the Federal Executive Council for ratification, the Nigerian Road Safety Strategy II, which is an update to the maiden of the Nigerian Road Safety Strategy I that was from 2014-2018.
“The NRSS II seeks to improve on the achievement of the first edition by further reducing road accidents and fatalities and instituting a basis for sustainable road traffic crashes and fatalities reduction. It also looked at the current road safety situation, articulates the desired road safety situation, design implementation of initiatives and programmes. And these Programmes and projects were estimated for implementation,” he said.
