The General Officer Commanding, 2-Division, Nigerian Army, Major General A.S. Chinade has reiterated the significant roles and importance of the Oyo State Road Transport Management (OYRTMA) in fostering sustainable security, peace, growth and development of Oyo State in particular and Nigeria as a whole.

The Army Boss made this known during a courtesy call on him by the Executive Chairman/CEO, OYRTMA, Mogaji Akin Fagbemi Ph.D on Wednesday 7th September, 2022 in Ibadan.

The strategic meeting centred on how OYRTMA could better collaborate with the Nigerian Army in the specific areas of emergency response, enforcement, effective traffic management, intelligence gathering, information sharing and continuous training of personnel.

The G.O.C. warmly received the Executive Chairman and assured of the military’s readiness to collaborate with the agency in a view to actualizing its core mandate of maintaining sanity across roads in Oyo State.

In his words, the Army Boss said: “It is crystal clear that the roles of Road Traffic Management Agencies in National Security remains one that is indispensable and thus cannot be overemphasized. While the organization of the transportation sector remains a cursory indicator to any decent society, cooperation between the Army and OYRTMA would lead to a greater success in all ramifications of the Oyo State economy in terms of security, health, agriculture and even education.
Therefore, I assure this gathering that the Army would assist in all ways possible to enhance the successes that OYRTMA has so far recorded since its establishment”, the GOC affirmed.

Furthermore, the Ltn. General Chinade seized the occasion to express deep appreciation of the 2-Division, Nigerian Army to Governor Seyi Makinde and the Oyo State Government for the perpetual support and enabling environment the Army enjoys under his administration particularly as agencies of the State Government are more than ever before ready to collaborate with the Army to improve Security and maintain law and order in the State and the entire geopolitical zone by extension.

On his part, The Executive Chairman OYRTMA, Dr. Fagbemi assured that the Agency shall do all within the ambits of the it’s enabling laws to join hands with the Army in achieving the four cardinal objectives of the Executive Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde FNSE in the specific areas of Education, Health, Security and Economic prosperity.

Both leaders also seized the opportunity to exchange complimentary plaques for the humanitarian services they are passionately rendering for the people of Oyo State particularly since the advent of the Governor Seyi Makinde’s administration.

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