 All right, you're still on to today with John and Helen on plus TV Africa here in Victoria Island Lagos Nigeria and today Like I've said before we're going to help you stay Save and stay alive as you move from one place to the other during this new time season So join us right now our guests is here So to the main thrusts for today, which is road safety, especially in this last phase of the ember months Let's welcome our guests a very seasoned officer in road safety management and administration. He's a professional Affiliate And fellow of many professional bodies too many for us to mention today on the show He's a recipient of the federal road safety core outstanding performance award as the best sector commander 2022 that caught my attention. I thought we should bring it out several other awards now for the past 28 years our guest has put as priority seven lives of Road users core commander. Shea. Goon. Goon. We may be believes that the joy that you create for others is That springboard for your own happiness several mantras. I picked out this one Welcome to the show very much So commander Lucia go goon me day sector commander like you heard a power see ours To one Lagos command is here seated with us today, and we are very happy to have it with us here Thank you very much. Absolutely. Welcome, sir. I appreciate sir at this time of the year Yes, yes, this is the season. This is the season. We are hoping this is your peak time Thank you once again for shutting out so many other engagements and Making you know time to be here with us. It was short notice. We apologize once again. You're welcome. Thank you So I'm going to fire the first shot And of course, you know that in exactly one week in exactly one week from now the Yuletide season will be upon us And thereafter The new year holidays will follow, you know already the traffic frenzy has started What should we expect this season? Would it be same of same? Does your I mean to traffic mind with authorities generally have anything special for us to ease You know traffic congestions especially in Lagos. Yes. Thank you for having that especially in Lagos Let me say good morning to Nigerians and thanks for the privilege to be with you Anytime we talk about traffic and green logs in Nigeria and you happen to be in Lagos just like One of the state governors made reference We will not talk about anything so special or peculiar when we Start getting towards the end of the year because it's what we have lived with That's true the year or through the months like From inception in January. We've been talking about great luck in Lagos And as I were going to manage it till December till we You know snowball into the new year and so is an indication that We have been on it. I will continue to be on it, but we cannot wish the fact a way that At the end of the year is always the peak period More people coming to the states more traveling will be made like you know our tradition When we are tending towards Christmas. We start traveling out of Lagos But you also agree with me that is balance people are also coming into Lagos too But yeah, you went to some extent because I've been on the road You you you realize that you'll be so surprised that Lagos is the destination of some people That's moving out of their local area coming to Lagos to have fun But we'll say it's tilting towards outwards because of the massive movement of people going to the north east Let me put it that way. I know they have huge number of people in Lagos So but we we've come over the years to understand the way it runs And we are always advancing in our projection and preparation like this year what is special is that We have pre-Christmas preparation We have the key period of the Christmas Preparation the pro yes, then we have posts and the post also extend to January When people will be returning back to Lagos So we we have a kind of all-encompassing preparation Also, nothing is going to meet us by surprise and They come the acting commercial does a deputy commercial build a call commander call myself view doubt a view as Done something also unique this time around is been able to deploy more additional Vehicles along the major critical corridor. So for those that are be traveling on Lagos Expressway, there will be something unusual There's every probability that at every 10 10 kilometers you see the main station when you talk of More visibility, you know one thing that gives comfort when you are traveling is the presence of security agencies That increase there's any problem. You have someone that is ability to yes and control because our fear about the new Legosi bad on expressway is lack of discipline when it comes to speed control So so so we're coming to that yeah more of your men on the road There's the other side of the coin will leave that for now for travelers Yes, it provides for you that safety and that Confidence that you're not alone on the road, but for some others There's some other things that come along with the fact that you know, there's a Security or a safety personnel at every maybe two or three five kilometers We might get to that if we have time after the show now Let's look at road use and the ethics of using the road Why do we seem to find it difficult and forcing discipline on our roots? I mean especially in Lagos here It's like people who go who are behind the wheels really haven't learned anything about the edits of driving I don't know we talk about discipline or some nations that have gotten it right When we do comparison We're always quick in picking Sweden as one of the countries in the whole world that has been able to get it right because of when you do comparison the rate of Fatality compared to the developing countries and we tried to understand the the way they got it what's where the things they put in place for them to be able to achieve that and I always remember one thing when we talk of governance and Enforcement it takes two to tango It's one thing for policies to be put in place It's another thing for the populace to comply with those principles of safety Because when we talk of all these Western world that we are celebrating we go to us. We comply It's not because It's not because the laws are so perfect You understand it's not because the laws are different from ours, but the attitude of people that are you know Managing those laws that are compliant with those laws are the ones that are that is quite different from the way we behave here our traffic laws are intact is There to regulate our activities and run is on the highway But when they are not complied with I've said this to him separately Policies is meant for majority Enforcement is for minority that could go against the infraction But what we witness around this place is the other way policy is for minority Why enforcement now becomes Problem because it becomes overwhelming for the enforcement agencies because the number of people that are going against the rules Are getting more you by the idea is huge and is deliberate because I said you don't need to wait for a miscrans Behind this turning before you start looking for someone that will commit an infraction Yeah, you'll be so surprised that that man that is well knitted with time looking corporate Just a little trigger. You see a different person in time. That brings us to our next point You know because now you've talked about attitude and that's a huge problem. Yes now And let's look at defensive driving and road rage How do we solve this problem because it's it's there every day every day out every day the best way to solve the problem of road rage is for you to ask yourself If I have an encounter with a madman on the road Will I give it back to him? I'll keep away from him We've only with this tenets of safety. Yeah, that issue assumed that all other road users are mad You're the only same person when you're on the road and the world is asking so when you see a madman on the road Do you associate with him or you avoid him? If any the the status of a country is determined by how chaotic The traffic is when you enter your country you want to know how disciplined you they are you look at the first thing you look at Is it traffic? Discipline and that's why the government of the day in Lagos Over the years you'll recall that the first thing they always tackle is this issue of traffic Managements even the present governor now is number one Agenda is on traffic management and transportation But if we're able to get our rights in a mega city like Lagos Definitely all other things are just by the way. So for us to manage the road rage It all start from individual Anything that happens today. I won't like to get to me Because eventually you end up outing yourself and it could get so detrimental To the extreme I witnessed one along also came one year The rage started from a lapberry and by the time they get to the tip of told me lambry the two vehicles on a subtle Because they were no auto-kicking Shove-in competing then they both lost control. I asked myself What would they be thinking at that moment? It was of the situation for them to take the proper decision For them to say let me allow this man be and let me have my way And it's okay. Now last week in Ikui Sadly, we recorded an unfortunate eat and run accident involving the prominent Nigerian cyclists This is not an isolated case. You will agree. What efforts are we making? You know To stand such practices so that we don't have people who are on their roads doing exercises And what have you get hit and killed? Any time we have reason to mention the number of road users because at times people that are not too educated they always limits Road users to the man behind the steering is beyond that the pedestrian has the right to the road The cyclists the motorcyclists they are all entitled to make use of the road so ability to be able to Money the road is what we fail in doing understand from our infrastructure The facilities never meet provisions for those exposed road users. And that's a major problem We have it's not just like you said is not an isolated case because we have serious and when you look at the one that just affected that gentlemen It's all as a result of distracted driving One and that's one major thing we've been battling with And the other one is visibility Driving at that early hour. Are you so visible? Do you have your reflective reflective tapes all around your bikes? wearing You know reflective outfits and there are you driving in such a way that the other would be that we actually see you Your speed appropriate, you know all those things will always come to play But I want to believe that irrespective of the way that my must have conducted himself The driver has a lot of blame to pick because if I have my way of Investigating on not analyzing the incident. I'm sure he was distracted Because if he was not distracted will have been able to manage the other man and so many things distract us right now You don't when you say so many things. You are just trying to manage the truth with by saying so many things one major thing That is the use of phone Why behind this hearing with many of us are so guilty of which has claimed so many lives and made so many people And I asked myself Wow, is it so difficult for us to come in here this morning? I Encounter mother I can count the number countless people you saw using the user that I used to be I have to be using my Mike to speak with okay concentrate on your driving Stop this distracted. No because you You you you will see someone Spilled up people are moving slowly you you may you read text you look up you read text You look and it won't be second. It doesn't take much and you see some will be holding it I'm the reading and the mic, you know, and it has gotten so bad even at the site of The FRC vehicle it does not even send any signal to them again. I know what we operate Now is intelligence kind of operation because I must not do enforcement. I will end up creating more problems Yeah, that's why we drew more on advocacy But too much of advocacy without enforcement. It's like just mere entertainment. That's why you say our men how they're trying to Do the needful. Wow. Okay trying to do the needful It's time to take a very quick break But don't go away it would be a fast one because we come back to wrap up our conversation With the guest and tell you more about road safety and all that you need to know stay with us So thanks for staying with us. The program is today with John and Helen live on plus TV Africa and our focus today is on road safety the sector commander that's For FRSC. Oh, shea go boom baby. He's still here with us. So let's pick up from where we stopped before the break Yeah, yeah, okay. Okay. Um, you mentioned something that happened I mean you talked about your acting boss recently at a sensitization effect event in play-to-state And they are acting core martial represented by sector commander Alfonso's Advised motorists, you know to take a break After four hours each time you have driven for four hours. You should take time to rest How practical is that? Yes Necessary is that is One how practical? Secondly, how necessary is very necessary because if you have been so, you know peculiar also familiar with Traveling with commercial vehicles you agree with me that Most time will notice our drivers do struggle with sleep If you that's what I do with the inner mirror any time I'm traveling I concentrate on the inner mirror It shows the face of the driver and you see them looking your own driver No, yeah, not I'm not talking of a forest. I'm talking of commercial drivers now. Yes, but that's our area Yeah, I mean, I mean yes your own driver So when you look at the inner mirror, you see their faces and the high is the struggle the bleak to stay repeatedly to stay awake And that's why I always encourage commuters to engage their drivers when they are on Transit to keep them alive because most time they don't sleep through the night. Yes, you see that they get involved in one Conduct or the other that is not too friendly with day driving. So what we try to encourage is when you drive and You feel after 40 hours is believed that you could have been stressed up with the corporation of order Members of the vehicle. Yeah, you should be allowed to have enough And even if you're lonely she comes even if you are you should it should be part of our You know rudiments when it comes to yes when it comes to issue of safety on our own It's possible. He's a it's something that we just need the corporation of Dibion of other road users that if you know is all about you is all about your safety I did it once when I was traveling to Abuja. We go to a badge and I noticed this man was you know struggling with sleep I just played dead with him. Mr. Driver. Can't you just take a little taking break? Okay, can as he was packing The money didn't allow me to finish. He quickly packed and I'm over on the Vehicle coincidentally, yes, 90% of my fellow Commodals were sleeping. Hmm. Of course. So when the man stopped it will come and say what happened what happened in my mind He could have been inside a dish. Yes, and many of them wouldn't have been able to say what happened Yes, I will just open their eyes and because everybody wants to pick up from your destination and just just Quickly now that is that is one very strong point, which I have We need a few I hope the viewers to have taken that can you give us a few other things like What are those key things that you must as routine? Yes, you know just give us a few of those things especially this season strictly are there to That's a driver If you're a driver or as a commuter if you're traveling maybe long distance Okay safety tips. Let me let me start. I think I will have to put it in categories now for the drivers If you wake up in the morning the first thing you should have in mind is that you are going on a trip Behanded with the information about the route. Okay. It goes a long way What is the highest the roads like especially commercial drivers the man that came yesterday should be able to give you an idea The chokeup point like black spots the green lock area No, no, no that you can just close your eyes and blow it So you have a you're handy without information. The second one is sleep. Well at night So that you can be prepared for the day's journey. I want you wake up. Do your normal first parade Check the vehicle is intact. Minimum safety standard is required. You can proceed on a trip with a side mirror You can proceed on a trip with a working wiper your lightning system are not working forget about the night can fall You can predict what will happen. So your lightning system must be happy and make sure you filled your tank the idea of We we remove obstructions on the highway. Is it not so ridiculous someone will say before God finished And the verku is abandoned on the highway So put yourself in the mindset that you're on a trip and avoid psychological destruction If you have reason to set up never you leave your home or your wife under ankle It goes a long way to create the way you conduct yourself on the highway Mm-hmm And if we record fatalities on Nigerian rules is not it grew is not necessarily because there's tire busts Even when there's tire bust and you drive under the normal condition. It might not lead to death But it's because of a sss speed sss speed, okay That is the major factor of fatter crashes because when you drive beyond the regulator speed Control you mind lose control and the impacts Determines the number of Buddha will be alive imagine the one will lost about 60 people killed in a day They have been trained as the abadji and the one that happened on meduguri just one day You should know that you can imagine the impact of the speed No, so when you have that one over loadings should be avoided Because even when there's a crash and the the occupants are free It's easier for them to escape most of the inferno that leads to so many death is because they are choked up So when you are living when you are trying to escape under panic That's big exit And the other one is always make sure be conscious of the kind of tires you have yeah if your tire is not one up The fact that a tire is not expired does not mean it's good or it's still usable Because it can still be within the expiring date and is already one out. We need a part two Because I have lots of questions and you know We've been told that the time has run out for this particular I would want to thank you for the Christmas gift that you've given us because I mean this advice the gift gift of life You know at least an attempt to save our lives is the greatest gift and that has come from you this morning Thank you. So and I think this conversation like she said Shouldn't just be seasonal You know, I think we should have it as a regular reminder. So that's an open invitation to use Please whenever Even when we don't call you whenever you think That you may have some important message to pass on to road users, you know kindly You know, just we're just a phone call away or not, right? So I want to thank you so much for preventing another crash I'm sure and With this information with this information You've given us. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We can't thank you enough Like I said, if it's possible, we'll do a part two. So please be understand by An appreciation to your colleague Your The acting comma, yes Who gave us the link to you for this opportunity. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you and wish you the very best As you step out of here and back to duty Thank you very much. Jody is waiting for you. He's waiting Thank you so much. All right So we move on from this conversation to the next segment and the next segment is another opportunity for you Probably to own that dream house Am I okoro and associates Have given us that opportunity And we will be getting to hear more good news from them in just a moment And don't forget we have the keep fit lady waiting to take us to the gym and help us shed some of this weight Especially during the season. So let's invite dolly phillips. And after that the real estate Solution segment will be here with am I okoro and associates don't go away