RECALL: Before I Go, Let Me Remind Nigerians, Federal Road Safety Corps was Soyinka’s Brainchild – Babangida

RECALL: Before I Go, Let Me Remind Nigerians, Federal Road Safety Corps was Soyinka’s Brainchild – Babangida

“Thanks to Prof Wole Soyinka. It [Federal Road Safety Corps] was his idea. It was he who was concerned about road accidents and came up with a programme which they started in Ibadan. I can’t remember what it was.

It was Wole Soyinka’s brainchild. We were very good friends, so when he sold this idea to us, we called him

and sat with him to know how to replicate the programme he was already doing so well in Ibadan. He said it was doable; that we could do it nationwide.

As a government in those days, we were very receptive to bright ideas. Anybody who came with a very bright idea and was capable of doing it, we gave them support. So, we gave Professor Wole Soyinka all the support and I am glad that till today it is still working.” – Gen Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida