Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has announced the appointment of Stella Uchegbu, as the new Corps Public Education Officer to replace Assistant Corps Marshal, Jonas Agwu, who is now a Zonal Commanding Officer in charge of Zone RS7, Abuja at Gwagwalada.
Until her new assignment, Uchegbu, a seasoned and thoroughbred officer, was at the FRSC SERVICOM Unit at the Abuja national headquarters.
The new spokesperson, who hails from Abia State, is stepping into a familiar terrain, having distinguished herself as the Corps’ spokesperson between 1990 and 1995 as Zonal Head of Public Enlightenment in the then Zone RS5HQ, Aba, Abia State and later as the Imo State Sector Head of Public Enlightenment Department.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Language Arts from the University of Ibadan (1985) and a Masters degree in Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
At the FCT Sector Command, Uchegbu was the Head of Motor Vehicle Administration, and was later redeployed as the Sector Head of Administration and Finance in 2001.
Between 2008 and 2013, she moved to the national headquarters where she worked in various capacities, including being the Head of Sports; Head of Unit, Driving School Standardization Programme; and Head of Unit, Corporate Organizations, Special Marshal and Partnership Department.
In her first meeting with staff of the Corps Public Education Office, Uchegbu expressed serious concern over the prevailing dominance of speed limit violation among road users in comparison with other causes of road crashes and reminded her colleagues of the need to raise the bar on the Corps’ sustained efforts to reverse the trend.
She added that the FRSC is fine-tuning modalities with the Standards Organization of Nigeria to commence a nationwide enforcement of the speed limiting devices on vehicles plying the nation’s highways.
Speaking further, Uchegbu said: “It is an attitudinal issue as the Federal Government’s drive towards motorable roads has witnessed rehabilitation of major corridors of the highways.
“Unfortunately, people tend to disregard traffic laws bordering on speed limits and accelerate beyond recommended speed, thus resulting to avoidable road crashes.
“If you notice, FCT ranks high among other states in terms of road network and traffic engineering and still maintains the highest on road crashes, thus linking this trend to the attitude of motorists even in the face of numerous strategies put in place by the Corps to engender sound road culture in the FCT.