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The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, has called for the review of the highway codes to ensure stiffer penalty for road traffic offenders.
Amaechi made the call at the Easter mega rally organised by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Thursday in Abuja.
The minister said that the review would help to reduce road traffic crashes and carnages on the highway.
He said that the review of the highway codes would also help curb the issue of road traffic crashes in the country.
Amaechi said that there was the need for road users to be aware of the stiffer penalty attached to recklessness on the highway.
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) is deploying all its operational energies in enforcing the use of helmets by motorcyclists across the country, its spokesman Mr Bisi Kazeem has said.
FRSC Corps Marshal, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi
The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi has directed Commanding Officers across all formations of the Corps to commence immediate clampdown on rickety vehicles plying Nigerian roads. The clampdown is an integral part of rejigged efforts of the Corps in the year 2021 to further reduce road traffic crashes across the country.
The Corps Marshal’s order was contained in a statement issued by Bisi Kazeem, the Corps Public Education Officer, Federal Road Safety Corps on Tuesday at the National Headquarters, Abuja.
According to Kazeem, the riot act to operators of rickety vehicles plying the nation’s highways, indicates that the Zonal Commanding Officers and Sector Commanders have been given an express directive to commence a nationwide arrest, impoundment, and prosecution of owners or operators of such vehicles.
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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has warned motorists and other road users to desist from indulging in drunk-driving, excessive speed, and reckless