Yuletide Travels: NEMA Advises Drivers And Passengers To Be Security Conscious

Managers of motor parks in Nigeria have again been asked to engage in proper checks in and around their locations to avoid any unforeseen incidents during this period of festivities.
The zonal coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Issa Chinoko, gave the advice in Abuja at a sensitization forum to draw attention to possible dangers at the motor parks following the high influx of Internally displaced persons (IDPs) into Abuja, the nation’s capital.
It is the end of the year once again and most Nigerians in their usual nature would always travel out of their stations using various means of transportation in order to celebrate the holidays with loved ones. Commonly used are the roads and officially commercial road trips are embarked upon from the motor parks.
For Abuja however, the recent influx of the IDPs into the city has heightened fears among residents and travellers. To this end, NEMA has told the road safety corps and other security agencies to educate commercial drivers on the need to ensure proper and adequate security checks in and around the motor parks.
“Garages, shopping malls are highly vulnerable to being attacked by these insurgents so that was what informed our decision to come and sensitize the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) executives on the need to keep their houses or to keep their environments in order especially in the area of security.” the NEMA official said.