I have three lovely sons. Like every good parent, their welfare and safety is a priority to me. The same should be the case for every parent. I do not know if
Some lap them. Others leave them unattended in moving vehicles. In the front and sometimes the rear seat of the vehicles. Others who are daring enough and too exposed for our clime even share the vehicle steering with the innocent but vulnerable kids. Some claim strapping these kids in a car seat is alien. This group maintains that strapping children in a car is meant for the white man, not a black man. I believe this group knows what they are saying.
The irony is that these same parents would not mind hanging out with friends and business partners to spend thousands on drinks, pepper soup and other extra. The female ones would prefer spending thousands of naira on designer shoes and bags, but not on the safety of their children. This is what a handful of parents call choices.
This is because, Road safety crisis is the leading cause of preventable death; the 3rd largest cause of disabilities. In Africa, it is the 2nd largest cause of deaths after Aids/HIV. In the same Africa, there’s generally no costing data making the cost of crashes difficult to estimate except for a few Countries.
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