DEATH AT FRSC PROMOTION COURSE: AN UNFORTUNATE AND SCANDALOUS INCIDENT

Written by Ugochukwu O Mgbemena
DEATH AT FRSC PROMOTION COURSE: AN UNFORTUNATE AND SCANDALOUS INCIDENT

It was recently reported that one of the officers that were in attendance at the FRSC Academy Udi for the FRSC promotion course lost his life in the process during a physical training exercise.

Details of the painful incident showed that at the moment he slumped, there was no emergency rescue personnel/equipment on standby at the training facility as a result of which he died.
The incident is very scandalous for an agency that claims “world class” and was mandated to carry out among other duties rescue activities, having to lose one of its own under an emergency situation.
Some pertinent questions here really need answers:

1. Why is the FRSC Management deliberately undermining the work-ability of its own  organizational structure by completely making the Sector and Zonal Commands irrelevant in the processes of conducting promotion exams which would be within easy reach to it personnel nation-wide?

2. For an organization that claims “world class” with effective use of ICT deployed via Vsat, why are FRSC personnel made to travel to the FRSC HQ in Abuja just for the purpose of sitting for Computer-based Tests if not for insensitivity and callousness.

3. Why would a set of officers/marshals that earlier sat and passed the public service organized confirmation/promotion exams be subjected to another needless round of promotion course and computer-based tests?

4. Why would a training academy into which billions of naira in Government funding not have an adequate emergency response facility/process on ground?

The FRSC authorities must take responsibility for the regrettable death of that officer and scores of others that have died or were injured over the years through road crashes in the bid to travel to distant venues of previously held promotion courses. The Marshals cadres were even made to travel to Jos from their Commands nation-wide in the heat of the recent crisis in Jos without a single thought for their safety.

It is very satanic to send FRSC personnel into a glaring danger of a brewing crisis including the unnecessary risk of the highways in the name of a sham promotion exercise.

DEATH AT FRSC PROMOTION COURSE: AN UNFORTUNATE AND SCANDALOUS INCIDENT DEATH AT FRSC PROMOTION COURSE: AN UNFORTUNATE AND SCANDALOUS INCIDENT Reviewed by Sommy Advertisement Agency on Sunday, July 29, 2018 Rating: 5

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