General Officer Commanding Eighty-one Division, Nigerian Army, Major- General Eugene Nwanguma has called on soldiers, who ride motorcycles, to always wear safety helmets to reduce accidents.
Nwanguma decried the high rate of soldiers who die as a result of their non-adherence to traffic rules.
He spoke at an awareness campaign on road traffic regulations and hazards, saying traffic laws were made for both military personnel and civilians.
According to him, the campaign was necessary to reduce the number of deaths recorded through motorcycle accidents.
The General Officer Commanding who spoke through his Chief of Staff, Brigadier- General Emmanuel Abejirin,appealed to soldiers to assist other law enforcement agents by obeying traffic rules.
Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant- General Abdulrahman Dambazau, has ordered that any soldier found without a helmet or moving at wrong times be arrested.
Guest lecturer, Assistant Corps Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps, Olusegun Ogungbemide in his speech stressed that no soldier should ride a motorcycle without the use of a crash helmet.
He said the death of a soldier was a loss to the entire nation that took the pains to train him, saying any soldier arrested would be handed over to his unit.
Also speaking, the Commanding Officer, sixty-five Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel Abdulmalik Bulama, enjoined the soldiers to always ride only when psychologically balanced, to reduce accidents.
More than one hundred soldiers and civilians matched round the Bonny Cantonment, venue of the sensitisation programme, carrying placards with inscriptions such as No to traffic accidents and No to over speeding.''
The campaign, organised by the sixty-five Battalion, had in attendance representatives of the navy, police, army, as well as okada riders and civilians.
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