NOA Charges Road Users On Traffic Laws

Road users in Port Harcourt metropolis and its environs have been told to obey traffic laws and imbibe a value system that would help free flow of traffic in the state.

Director, National Orientation Agency (NOA), Rivers State, Chief Andy Nweye, gave this charge, at an orientation programme organised for the Special Task Force on Road Decongestion, by the 2nd Amphibious Brigade, Bori Camp, Port Harcourt, recently.

Chief Nweye identified lack of operational vehicles like tow vans as one major impediment to the activities of the task force and appealed to the State government to make available tow vans to ease their work.

The NOA boss while appealing to the members of the Task Force to be humane in dealing with the public, pointed out that the essence of the task Force was to make life easier for road users by ensuring free flow of traffic.

According to the statement, Chief Nweye, while fieldinquestions from participants, said that the Ad-hoc staff attached to TIMA-RIV and the Environmental Sanitation Agency be properly identified and given some level of training to enable them relate well with the public.

He further said that lack of road signs, impatience on the part of drivers and lack of walkway, pose challenges to road users and appealed for better road management skills to be applied.

The Brigade Commander 2nd Amphibious Brigade, Boris Camp, Brigadier General T.Y. Buratai lauded the capacity for its orientation programmes and noted that the task force was now fully energised and better equipped to carry out their assignments.

He called for regulation education of the task force and the public on policies of the government to ensure their smooth implementation.

He used the opportunity to explain that the presence of the military in the task force was to help check the activities of criminals and to protect members of the task force from molestation and charged them to discharge their duties professionally.