Foundation Launches Advocacy Drama on Road Safety

The Akin Fadeyi Foundation (AFF) has launched the next edition of its ‘Not In My Country Project’, designed to address the major causes of road accidents across the country.

The foundation launched three advocacy drama documentaries that will help motorist and other road users to guide against road accidents that can be avoided.

The one-minute advocacy drama is a clarion call, a civic alarm designed to interrupt dangerous habits that Nigerians have regrettably normalised.

Speaking during a webinar for the media presentation of the next ‘Not In My Country Project’, the AFF Executive Director/Founder, Mr. Akin Fadeyi, identified various reasons for road accidents on Nigerian roads, which he attributed to individual behaviour of road users.

According to him, in order to tame further road accidents, the safety awareness campaign must begin with citizen’s behavioural change.

The three advocacy drama include: campaign against drinking while driving, wrong parking of vehicles on the road, and driving against traffic flow. He said the campaign would help to reduce road accidents and therefore called on individuals and government agencies like the Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation to amplify the campaign across national platforms such as NTA, AIT, Channels TV, ARISE TV, and across digital ecosystems that shape modern consciousness.

“Globally, road crashes is responsible for approximately, the loss of 1.2 million lives every year at an average of 3,200 deaths per year. This cuts across the US, the UK, Canada, Dubai etc. In Nigeria, the 2025 FRSC data reveals a chilling picture of 10,446 crashes, 38,689 casualties, and 5,289 deaths, a 9.2 per cent rise. Over-speeding, improper over-taking, driving under impairment, illegal parking, overloading, are not accidents, but behavioural infractions masquerading as fate,” Fadeyi said.

“AFF will continue to promote our work on behavioural change. We will continue to raise awareness with passion, precision, and persistence. But we call upon well-meaning Nigerians, institutions, agencies, and partners across all sectors to join hands with us in the campaign,” Fadeyi further said.

Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Gbenga Omotoso, stressed the need for motorists to obey road signs and respect traffic controllers that are on duty controlling traffic.

He called on drivers who have formed the habit of drinking before driving, to desist from such habit, which he said has led to several road accidents and deaths on the roads.

“Most drivers in motor parks often buy alcoholic drinks in sachets, and they open them and start drinking before driving. Nobody does anything about that, yet people complain about the state of our roads. Many of the roads are good and that is why most drivers have turned our roads into racing tracks and any attempt to stop them, they see it as corruption on the part of government. I’m not saying that government officials who are doing law enforcement are clean. No, because in any human situation, the human element is there that may hurt people,” Omotoso said.

Addressing the issue of government officials using siren and over-speeding during official trips, Omotoso said in Lagos State, the use of siren by government officials had long been stopped.