Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, has postponed this year’s Annual Lecture Series earlier slated for today in Abuja.
According to the Corps Public Education Officer, Corps Commander Jonas Agwu, the postponement was necessitated by the demise of African icon, Dr Nelson Mandela, who died on Friday last week in South Africa and the engagement of some key stakeholders for the lecture, in his the burial rites.
Agwu stated that this year’s edition of the FRSC annual lecture, which was to be delivered by the President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, was structured to focus on developmental challenges confronting safer roads in Africa as part of measures to stimulate public discourse and action on the developmental challenges towards realising set goals for safer roads in the African continent.
Speaking further, Agwu added other events lined up for the annual lecture such as the command performance of Prof. Wole Soyinka’s play, ‘The Trial of Brother Jero’, in honour of the Ghanaian President; also scheduled for the same date, has been postponed.
In view of the development, the FRSC regrets any inconveniences this postponement might have caused its invited guests and stakeholders even as a new date will be announced in due course.