The new Head of the FRSC Drivers License Center, Ikeja Lagos, Supt. Route Commander Olabisi Sonusi has expressed her gratitude and excitement for her 14 years spent as the Public Education Officer of Lagos Sector Command, TheMediaGood Newspaper can report.
Noting that in her tenure, FRSC Lagos Sector witnessed significant development in public education and enlightenment, Supt. Route Commander Olabisi Sonusi informed ‘I took over the mantle of the sector public relations office in February 2010 and I left June 2024 that’s about 14 years that I have occupied the seat. I must say that there have been lot of challenges but I must say we are able to surmount them because we have very good stakeholders, especially our friends from the fourth realm, the press have been very supportive all through these years, they have been very supportive all the way. Rolling out all our activities, following up with all our activities and all what we have been doing has helped us in the course of 14 years.’
‘The RS 2.1 Lagos sector command has been at the top of position nationwide back to back like 3 times and this was also made possible because of the relevant stakeholders that had helped us including members of the fourth realm.’
On her challenges, Sonusi indicated: ‘When I first started, one of the most challenging tasks back then was giving daily traffic update in some of the indigenous radio stations, top on the list back then was Ray Power and I was also on Radio Continental now Max FM and I remember the first day wasn’t funny, you know something you’ve not done before, thank God for the then Sector Head of Operations who was giving the updates. I had to understudy him but today I can say it has been a success story we have lot of stations now that we give daily updates to and we still have lots more that are coming onboard, you know we have lots of radio stations in Lagos and we are blessed with such in state. Those were the challenging periods but we are able to surmount it because we have people who are there to help us and also to push us and strive to do more.’
Assuring Lagosians on the suitability of Route Commander Olu Jayeola to succeed her as Public Education Officer, Sonusi said that ‘the newly appointed person is a seasoned person I know even while she was far away. She has been understudying what we are doing in Lagos so I don’t see her not surmounting the pressure in Lagos. I see her going far beyond what we have done and when we were talking when she came in yesterday, I told her some of the success stories we have had. We have lot of radio stations that we give daily update to. We have some regular stations where we have our regular programs that we use in sensitizing the motoring public on the best road practice.’
‘Now that she’s onboard, I expect to see more radio stations coming onboard to partner with FRSC because you know road safety is a shared responsibility. If we have more radio station come onboard to still help us to propagate the gospel of road safety and it gets to every nook and cranny in Lagos that will be something I want her to do and to surpass what I have done. So I know she’s capable, I can assure that and I want to use this opportunity also to plead with everybody out there and to stakeholders who had been with us that the same support you have given to me Olabisi Sonusi, please extend same to her and other PROs in other sister agencies.’
‘I am only stepping aside, I am still on the stage, so you can always rest assured that we will work together to make sure that we deliver and that every motoring public out there does not end up dying through road traffic crashes.’