Shuaibu Usman
The Nasarawa State Motor-Vehicle Administration and Traffic Management Agency, NASVATMA, in the last few days, has been on a special training course of sixty new intakes who will later be passed out as Road Traffic Officers/Vehicle Inspection Officers anchored at reducing the excesses of poor motoring activities in the state.
The two-week training session, according to the Agency’s General Manager, Engr. Victor Iya, will impact the participants with the rigors and technical know-how of the job for better and effective service when finally passed out on 24th November this year.
Speaking during the training session, a resource person, Prince Dele-Yaro challenged the participants on working within the ambit of the law to realise set goals, adding that any act that will bring disrepute to the organisation should be jettisoned as road traffic enforcement officers.
Dele-Yaro, a retired director with the Abuja Directorate of Road Traffic Services, charged the intakes to complement the efforts of other sister agencies to rid Nigerian roads of avoidable crashes and gridlocks, tasking them to operate with decency and professionalism.
“Be professional. I urge you to stay away from inter-agency rivalry. This has been a bane in our country’s safety and security architecture”.
He advised them to take the opportunity given to them seriously to correct the ills in the motoring sub-sector, maintaining that no act of criminality was worth being swept under the carpet in order to sanitise the system.
The retired-but-never-tired road expert enjoined them to see their job as a means of serving humanity not generating revenue for the government, insisting that many had misunderstood the objectives of the agency to revenue generation as he called for attitudinal reform.
He lauded the agency for putting up the training to equip the trainees with modern-day experience, emphasising that public enlightenment on road safety, roadworthiness certification and driver training were key to having a safer motoring environment.
Some of the participants who spoke to Nasarawa Newsline, Jesse Daniel, Blessing Alaku and Ali Musa said they had received exhaustive lectures on traffic management, monitoring and control as well as licensing, promising to work professionally in accordance with the dictates of the law.