SCI sensitizes schools in FCT on road safety
Save the Children International (SCI), has commenced sensitization of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Students on road safety rules to ensure their safety on the road and at traffic areas.
The campaign which was in line with United Nations (UN) week for road safety was meant to reduce road traffic injuries which are leading cause of death and disability worldwide.
Addressing students of Junior Secondary School Life Camp, FCT, SCI Head of Safety and security, Mr Peter Adomi, said SCI took the initiative to promote road safety management, safer vehicles, safer road users, post-crash response, and safer driving environments.
“We are sensitizing them to observe various rules on the roads. We have been to other schools and we are happy with the campaign because we are educating the children to understand the various challenges on the roads.”
Speaking on the theme, ‘Zebra crossing’, he said SCI was educating them on Zebra crossing, because our drivers don’t understand road signs. If the children know how to use the Zebra crossing, it will be easier for them to access the road.
He call on policy makers to rethink mobility, make walking, cycling, and public transport safe and convenient so that people can make the shift to active, sustainable mobility.
He said statistics revealed that 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.”
The, Advocacy Campaign and Policy Manager, SCI, Edith Gumut Nankiling, explained that the organization had engaged with Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, VIO and Secondary schools in the FCT to create awareness on the need for children to obey road safety rules.
Emmanuel Ene from Junior Secondary Gwarimpa who spoke on behalf of other students expressed joy with the teachings on road safety rules, and advised drivers and other road users to intimate themselves with road safety etiquette to avoid accidents.
Reporting by Julian Osamoto; Editing by Adeniyi Bakare