BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei Darussalam, Feb 12 (NNN-PB) – Road fatalities in Brunei went down by 44 percent, as the government worked with the private sector, to promote safe driving in 2017-2018, said a senior government official, here.
According to a local daily, Minister of Transport and Info-communications, Abdul Mutalib, attributed the decrease to the Brunei National Road Safety Council’s active involvement with the private sector and non-government organisations in 2017-2018.
The ministry was also employing a “whole of nation” approach for safety initiatives, the daily reported.
“We hope to maintain and even improve on this with a whole-of-nation approach, which we do on a constant basis, through a series of awareness programmes and enforcement through our enforcement agencies,” Abdul Mutalib was quoted as saying.
“We have expanded our scope of functions and are now focusing on the transport sector, which covers land, aviation and maritime…At the same time, we will also be focusing on info-communications, postal services, broadcasting, e-services, e-governance and cyber-related matters,” he said.– NNN-PB
The minister said that, his ministry has been experiencing restructuring and re-strategising, in terms of its functions, ever since its name change to the Ministry of Transport and Info-communications last Dec.
