Digitalising road safety operations: The FRSC approach
The ugly narrative of road traffic crashes in the early 1970s and 1980s forced the Federal Government to establish the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) in 1988, as the lead agency in road safety administration and traffic management in Nigeria via decree no 45 of 1988 as amended by decree no 35 of 1992, later codified as FRSC Act (CAP 141) Laws of the Federation 1990 and FRSC Act CAP F19, LFN, 2004; FRSC (Establishment) Act, 2007. But the road safety administration in Nigeria has witnessed a paradigm shift from traditional approach to Safe Systems Approach through the use of state of the art Information Technology facilities, The Corps has been able to enhance its operational capacity aimed at promoting public safety and security. The Corps under different governmental and administrative leaderships has proven to allay the menace of road traffic crashes in the past 33 years using modern ICT facilities and digital tools. As a performance driven organ