(APS) – The director general of the National Road Safety Agency (ANASER), Cheikhou Omar Gaye, announced, Wednesday, the upcoming implementation of local plans to combat road insecurity in the fourteen regions of Senegal.
“Not all regions have the same specificities and the same needs to address the issue of road safety. This is why, in each region, a local plan to combat road insecurity will be developed under the chairmanship of the governor, with a monitoring committee which will implement these activities which are identified in each region,” he said. -he declares.
Mr. Gaye was speaking at the Regional Development Committee (CRD) devoted to road safety.
This meeting follows the thirteen CRDs already organized in other regions by the territorial command as part of the national campaign to combat the increase in traffic accidents, in conjunction with the National Road Safety Agency (ANASER), a- he explained.
This meeting, he added, aims to find ways and means to eradicate this phenomenon. According to him, it is also an opportunity for all stakeholders to make “an exhaustive diagnosis of the situation, and to propose solutions and a consensus on the future action plan that must be applied”.
The elements which will emerge from this meeting will be donated during the general transport conference which will be held in July, on the instructions of the Head of State, indicated the director general of ANASER.
According to him, Senegal’s road network is 86% in good condition.
“What we need is to curb human negligence, strengthen road control, apply pair control sanctions, but also to carry out capacity building training operations, education and awareness of road safety ”, he stressed.
“In the Dakar region, traffic accidents are mainly linked to excessive speed, reckless behavior adopted by certain drivers, distraction, but also the poor mastery by certain drivers of the highway code,” he said. port his part noted Assane Guèye, the deputy governor in charge of administrative affairs.
Based on this observation, he assured that the regional authorities will take, at the end of this CRD, decisions that are their responsibility, combining both prevention and repression, to definitively eradicate accidents in the Dakar region.
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