bicycles used to illustrate the story The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Bayelsa Command, has advised Nigerians to adopt the use of bicycles as a means of transportation because of its numerous benefits.
The Bayelsa Sector Commander, Usman Ibrahim, gave the advice during the awareness ride to commemorate World Bicycle Day in Yenagoa on Saturday.
Represented by Oiwoja Alagoa, Deputy Corps Commander, Mr Usman said that bicycle transport was cheaper and healthy for the physical well-being of the human body.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a team of cyclists comprising officers of the Corps, NYSC and professionals participated during the awareness ride.
He said it was time to re-adopt the transportation system that had assisted human civilisation for ages.
The commander said countries like Denmark, China, and The Netherlands, all used bicycles a lot, as the parts of the body were put to use and to burn energy that would have been stored in the body.
“Also the atmosphere is preserved, it does not emit or pollute the atmosphere, and causes less congestion on the road.According to him, apart from being cheaper than motor vehicles to acquire, a bicycle is cheap to maintain and healthier for the physical well-being of people and their environment. Mr Ibrahim said it was due to the overwhelming benefits of bicycles that the United Nations met in 2017 and declared 3 June of every year as World Bicycle Day.“Advanced countries have readopted bicycle transportation system as a matter of public health wellbeing and control of greenhouse effects […]
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