Anambra State Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps has reiterated its commitment to ensuring sanity on the highways.


The State Sector Commander of the Corps, Mr. Andrew Kumapayi who stated this at the corporate Headquarters of the Agency in Awka revealed that between December 2019 and January sixth 2020, a total number of nineteen cases of road crashes were recorded in Anambra State.


Mr. Kumapayi said that two deaths were recorded, forty persons injured, thirteen seriously and three were minor during the period under review.


The State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps noted that between January and December 2019, the command arrested twenty-eight thousand, nine hundred and ninety eight traffic offenders which shows more commitment of the Officers and Men of the Command in tackling road related issues across the State.


According to Mr Kumapayi the command in the same year, impounded a total of thirteen thousand two hundred and eight vehicles which was made possible due to the support of the Anambra State Government in ensuring that all the security agencies are given necessary incentives to succeed in their mandate.


The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps said that during the last yuletide the command deployed its staff to all strategic parts of the state to ensure free vehicular movement in addition to its aggressive enlightenment campaigns at churches, markets, town hall meetings, parks which contributed to the reduction of road crashes during the last yuletide.


Mr. Kumapayi commended the Anambra State government for its various interventions and promised that the command will consolidate on the gains recorded to improve on their success.