Presidency, RTEAN collaborate on road safety

This was revealed when the Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Youths and Students Matter Comrade Jude Image paid a working visit to the headquarters of RTEAN in Abuja.Jude listed the areas of collaboration to include checking of underage driving and curbing driving under the influence of intoxicants by commercial drivers.He said, “While […]

This was revealed when the Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Youths and Students Matter Comrade Jude Image paid a working visit to the headquarters of RTEAN in Abuja.
Jude listed the areas of collaboration to include checking of underage driving and curbing driving under the influence of intoxicants by commercial drivers.
He said, “While we quite agree with the fact that some are unavoidable accidents, those that are man-made have been attributed to the fact that most of our brothers that are involved in such accidents are either under the influence of alcohol and other negativities ranging from Indian hemp and all the rest.
“I believe very strongly that we can get this sanitised when it starts with us and the best set of persons to get this done are our parents today and particularly the new leadership of RTEAN which we expect to provide a new leadership style.
“We have equally come to assure them that we are going to partner together and work together because it involves young people and involves Nigeria as a country and they have the assurance of Mr. President to partner with them.”
On his part, President of RTEAN Comrade Musa Shehu assured the presidential aide of the readiness of his association to partner with government, also stressing that RTEAN has set up a committee to address drunk driving and the mugging of passengers commonly referred to as “one chance.”