Brave driver of burning fuel tanker gets FRSC award

The Federal Road Safety Corps has offered an award of bravery to Mr Otarigho Ejiro, the tanker driver who drove a burning truck away from a residential area and averted a major catastrophe.

The Senate has also recommended to President Muhammadu Buhari that the driver should be considered for a national award.

The driver’s display of professionalism was commended and said to have endeared him to the FRSC Corps Marshal, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi.

A statement by the Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, said the corps marshal received the report of the incident warmly.

This incident occurred at Agbarho community of the East West road in the Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State on Friday.

Oyeyemi described the action as heroic, “patriotic, sacrificial, selfless and highly commendable”.

The corps marshal said the driver deserved to receive “an award for rare exhibition of bravery. The award shall be given to him at a date to be announced soon.”

He said that the commendation was also meant to “reaffirm the position of the corps as an agency that does not only punish drivers when they contravene the law, but also commend them when they display professionalism in driving.

He called on other drivers conveying inflammable products to emulate Ejiro’s courage and professionalism.