By Kenneth Onuoha
The Chairman, Board of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mallam Bukhari Bello, has pledged the board’s commitment to support the upgrade of the FRSC Academy, Udi to degree-awarding institution.
Bello said this on Thursday, April 15, 2021, in Udi near Enugu when the board members were led on inspection of facilities at the academy by the Corps Marshal of FRSC, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi.
He said that the board members were “so impressed and excited’’ with the level of infrastructure development at the academy.
According to him, we are still amazed with the level of prudent management of financial resources to set up the infrastructure in this academy within a short space of time.
Bello said, “From what we have inspected and seen ourselves, we are highly impressed with the level of financial prudence imbibed by the FRSC management led by the Corps Marshal, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi.
“We, as board members have decided to give our full support for the plan to turn this academy to a full fledged degree-awarding institution on transport and road safety related matters.
“The challenges raised are supposed to be surmounted; and we are going to join hands with the current forward looking management of the FRSC to surmount them all’’.
Speaking, Oyeyemi said that the management had been very meticulous and prudent in its spending and “ensuring that every kobo goes to something tangible and purposeful’’.
The corps marshal appreciated the Federal Government for its continuous support to the corps and state governments that had supported the corps futuristic programmes and expansions.
He said, “FRSC, today, is not having any abandoned project anywhere in the country notwithstanding that we recently set-up 16 command offices within the country.
“We have been going about our projects and infrastructure development in the academy and other of our establishments with prudence and judicious use of funds.
“The judicious use of funds and achieving results had made us win a lot of goodwill and collaboration with various state governments in the country and even international bodies’’.
During the tour of the academy complex, the board members inspected a functional water works; medical centres and its facilities; 500-seat cafeteria; academy library and 450-student capacity hostel.
Others included; 500-capacity auditorium fully air conditioned; 500-capacity multi-purpose hall; driving simulation centre; 150-computer capacity ICT centre and two generating sets – 300KVA and 273KVA.