RSG Unveils Body To Accredit Driving Schools

Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transportation, Mr Sabiu Zakari (Front), inspecting the interior of the newly arrived Commercial Coaches for Abuja rail project during his visit to Idu in Abuja recently. With him is the Acting Managing Director, Nigerian Railway Corporation, Mr Fidet Okhiria.

The Rivers State Gov
ernment has inaugurated a committee for inspection and certification of driving schools in the state.
Speaking while inaugurating the committee in Port Harcourt recently, the Commissioner for Transport, Deacon Akie Dagogo Fubara, said the inauguration was to stream line the operations of driving instructors as the number of driving schools operating in the state does not meet the required standard.
Fubara opined that the exercise was in line with the statutory requirement and responsibility of government, adding that the State Ministry of Transport in collaboration with the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) is poised to streamline the operations of driving schools in order to help turn out qualified drivers.
He frowned at the situation whereby ill trained drivers who do not know or understand road signs get under the wheels after being trained by quacks, stressing that the trend would no longer be tolerated.
Also speaking, the chairman of the Association of Driving Instructors of Nigeria, Agidi Olusola Daniel, had informed the commissioner of the association’s preparedness to partner with the state government to flush-out quacks in the sector and thanked him for the initiative which would help sanitise the system for safe driving.
The Head, Department of Mechanical, Electrical Engineering of the Ministry of Transport, Engineer Ephraim Uranta is the chairman of the committee, with representatives from the Ministry of Transport, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) as well as the Association of Driving Instructors of Nigeria.

Collins Barasimeye