Ahead of the Christmas and New Year festivities, the National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates Confraternity), the Federal Road Safety Corps,FRSC, and the Nigeria Red Cross Society have commenced a campaign against road accidents in Bayelsa State.
The organizations also called on indigenes of communities along major highways to help reduce deaths of accident victims by quick live-saving responses.
They offered preliminary training on Tuesday to the indigenes of the Tombia-Amassoma road in Yenagoa and Southern Ijaw Local Government Area on how to conduct themselves as first responders during road crash incidents.
Speaking at the event, the Capoon of Oxbow Marino Deck, Mr Ebi Ayerite, said the campaign is part of the efforts of the National Association of SeaDogs (NAD) to assist in curbing the menace of vehicular road crashes, especially during the festive period.
He said the NAS also offer preliminary training to arm the various communities along major highways on first aid response to accident victims.
In his remarks, the Sector Commander of the, FRSC, Corps Commander Mathew Egbe, announced that the Corps is set to embark on visits to all hospitals within and around the Tombia-Amassoma axis to remind them of the constitutional obligation they owe road crash victims brought to their hospitals, to first treat and save their lives before making any other demands.
He also assured road users in the state of the readiness of the FRSC to reduce to the barest minimum, the incidences of road crashes, admonishing participants to promote the culture of safe and healthy road usage especially during the festive period.
