In commemoration of the Global Road Safety Week declared by the United Nations, Save the Children International (SCI), has observed that Nigerian drivers don’t recognise the zebra crossing sign meant to keep road users safe from road crashes.
The head of safety and security SCI, Peter Adomi, during it road safety campaign to Junior Secondary School Life Camp, FCT, said this became necessary because children needs to be more enlightened on how to keep themselves safe from road crashes.
He said the theme of this year’s campaign is, “Zebra crossing”, noting that if the children know how to use the Zebra crossing, it will be easier for them to access the road.
He said they are not only talking to the children but also talking to drivers, road users and commuters .
He also observed that the statistics and data of road transport crashes are more around private schools.
“That’s where you have the largest traffic of school pickup and drop off and that’s where you find people being in a hurry to dash in and out to pick their children . Our focus is that children needs to know what to do,” he said.
Also, the Advocacy Campaign and Policy manager, SCI, Edith Gomut Nankhiling, said all through the week, they engaged with organisations like Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, VIO and Secondary schools in the FCT to create awareness on why children should obey road safety rules so that they can be safe on the road and avoid unnecessary accidents that might occur on the road .
“We will continue to work with the FRSC and school management to see how we can establish a road safety club and use those platforms to engage with the children and then consistently see how they get to obey with road safety rules.
“We also had a quiz with 10 students from each Secondary schools we visited today and some of them got prizes for been knowledgeable of road safety rules,” he said
