FCT VIO Promotes 386 Officers To Boost Traffic Management

In a bid to ensure effective regulation of road traffic management, the FCT Directorate of Road Traffic Services (DRTS) also known as Vehicles Inspection Officers (VIO) has promoted 386 officers and men of the directorate, to help boost its effort towards better service delivery in Abuja.

It was gathered that the 386 promoted personnel were among the 405 officers and men of the directorate, who sat for promotion exams in 2022, and were successful.

The DRTS director, Dr. Bello Abdulateef, while speaking at the rank decoration ceremony for the newly promoted officers yesterday, explained that the promotion will indirectly or directly translate into productivity and service delivery to the public, so people should be rest assured that DRTS is posed for better service going forward.

He disclosed that the Directorate is preparing training for capacity development, to enable those who have been promoted and those waiting to be promoted improve their productivity.

“To whom much is given, much is expected. We expect them to display some level of responsibility in terms of discretion and repositioning the Directorate for effective service delivery,” he said.

He added that the leadership of the DRTS will keep reminding its officers and men to maintain the best standards, in line with the rules and regulations guiding the service, warning that erring DRTS personnel risks a variety of sanctions which may include dismissal from service.

Earlier, the deputy director of Human Resource Management (HRM) of the directorate, Francisca Samuel, who noted that the number of the promoted personnel represents a success rate of 95.30 percent, said it is the desire of HRM of the administration division to surpass this mark in the next promotion exercise coming up later in the year.

She also urged the newly promoted officers to be committed to their responsibilities and put in required sacrifice to uplift the directorate to achieve set goals.