PCRC Preaches Sanity In PH Metropolis

The need for sanity, safety and security of road users in the Port Harcourt metropolis and its environs has again been stressed.

The chairman of Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC), Port Harcourt Area Command, Mr Godfrey Agorom in his address at the 3rd joint meeting of all stakeholders in road traffic management in Rivers State and in the metropolis held at the Police Officers Mess, Old GRA Port Harcourt last Tuesday said the public outcry against the operational methods adopted by the various traffic agencies in the state was overbearing as breakdown of law and order looked imminent.

Mr. Agorom said the government meant well by enacting the Rivers State Road Traffic Management Law inorder to bring sanity, orderliness, safety and security on our roads, but that the manner in which the law was being implemented had necessitated the series of meetings in order to profer solutions.

He said, “The bottom line is that we need sanity on our roads, we need safety and security on our roads. We need less uniform men on our roads”, and called for a collective view on a way forward.

The area command chairman also noted that members of the public should also obey traffic laws to avoid embarrassment from the law enforcement agents, adding that the forum would also proffer solutions that would help the state government to effectively manage the dynamics of a growing metropolitan city of Port Harcourt and the entire Rivers State.

Meanwhile, in a 16-point communiqué issued at the end of the meeting, however, called on TIMARIV to carry out public enlightenment campaign to ensure that the driving public is well informed of their activities, all Nigerians to treat every other human being with dignity and respect, all illegal road traffic officers to flushed out of the state to safe the public from their menance and that ex-service men who had taxi cab or other vehicles should obey traffic laws, as well as commercial vehicles to use the government approved parks.

The forum was attended by stakeholders in the state, including the police, representatives of the Commissioner for Transport, Rivers State Environmental Sanitation Authority, National Union of Road Transport Workers Union, Rivers State Road Traffic Management Agency, Federal Road Safety Commission, PCRC, NUJ, RATTAWU, Port Harcourt City Local Government Council and the State Chief Vehicle Inspection Officer, Chief Sylvernus Obu Dappa among others.

Collins Barasimeye