The
Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has announced the closure of the
Lokoja-Abuja highway to ensure the safety of road users. Mohammed
Garuba, the Kogi State Sector Commander of the FRSC, said that the
decision to close the highway was to ensure the safety of lives.
The highway has been flooded since last week because of a rise in water levels of the River Niger. The commission arrived at the decision following the
continued rise in the water level at the Banda Village, two kilometres
to Lokoja, the Kogi capital, adding that the movement of vehicles on the
road had become "completely impossible".
According to him, FRSC
officials and some youths who had been guiding vehicles through the
water for the past three days had been overstressed and could no longer
cope with the situation. He said that the road would remain closed until the commission could guarantee safe vehicular movement.Wow!
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