By Maureen Onochie The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Shehu Mohammed, says the agency has recorded three landmark crashes that claimed the lives of 91 people in the last one month. Speaking yesterday during a press briefing and meeting with stakeholders in Abuja, he said the crashes included one that occurred in Niger State on the 8th of September this year which claimed 48 lives, another in Sabon Wuse on 12 September which claimed 18 lives as well as another in Kaduna State on 15 September, claiming 25 lives. He said this record called for concern.
He said the three crashes proved to have been obviously avoidable. Ex-AG refutes Bafarawa’s claim of leaving N13bn in Sokoto coffers Flood displaces over 2,000, submerges 100 homes in Kwara community He frowned that while the government was doing its best to provide and maintain transport facilities in accordance with global best practices, some road users, especially drivers, have continued to make a mockery of the efforts by exhibiting a high level of recklessness on the roads. Mohammed therefore directed commanding officers of the corps to ensure round the clock enforcement of traffic offences so as to mitigate the excesses immediately, stressing that a special patrol operation will be instituted and enforcement would be carried out nationwide.
He said the meeting was to address the current road safety challenges such as carrying inflammable substances, night trips, speeding, overloading and their deva.