Job Performance of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ogun State: A Perception of Commercial Drivers

Abstract

Road traffic accidents have been a menace worldwide than any other form of epidemic diseases and its occurrence is still trending till date. The measures and means to reduce and curb this surge are to knowledge of road traffic safety consciousness within the society and this has not received adequate attention in transport research. Hence, this study aimed the perception of the commercial drivers on the job performance of FRSC personnel with the challenges confronting the FRSC personnel, attitude of commercial drivers towards the compliance of FRSC rules. The study observed that, the responses of the FRSC personnel on Lack of adequate funding were as follow 72%, the overall percentage of lack of adequate man power showed that 64% of the personnel affirmed with this assertion that the Agency lacks adequate manpower.  Drivers’ attitude towards traffic safety reflected that, 22.9% of the drivers do routine check on the vehicles before embarking on any journey while 77.1%, 69.2% of the drivers from proportion don’t observe traffic regulations during course of operation, 77.2% do not fasten seatbelt when driving. In conclusion, despite effort made by Nigeria government in reducing rate of crashes on our roads, the law enforcement agents failed to achieve their purpose of establishment according to drivers’ perception. But the trend of crashes between 2011 – 2020 dwindling negates the claim of drivers. Therefore, study recommended that, government at all level in the state speed up actions on traffic engineering exercise and legislate law to develop and improve existing safety education techniques in the state in general.

Keywords: Job Performance, Perception, Commercial drivers, Road safety, Road accident