Ember months: FRSC to enforce speed limiter

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), is work­ing out modalities that will ensure safety on Nige­rian roads within the ‘em­ber’ months (September to December) which usually record more accidents on the roads due to increased vehic­ular movements.

The Corps Marshal of the Commission, Dr. Boboye Olayemi Oyeyemi, disclosed this FRSC Academy in Udi, Enugu during the closing ceremony of one-month re­training and re-certification exercise of over 2,000 pro­fessional commercial drivers in the employ of transport company, Peace Mass Transit (PMT).

He said the command would enforce all the precau­tionary measures on all mo­torists, especially commercial transport company drivers, in a bid to curtail road accidents caused by human errors.

Dr Oyeyemi disclosed that all commercial transport own­ers would be tasked to ensure install ‘speed limit’ meters in every of their vehicles.

He stressed that the speed limit meters will be a guide to every driver of a motor com­pany that he must not exceed recommended speed limits on high ways, failure of which he would be traced and pun­ished.

He also recommended the retraining and re-certification of commercial vehicle drivers working in every transport company while ascertain­ing their state of mind, blood pressure and eyesight.

PMT boss, Chief Maduka Onyishi, who was present at the closing ceremony said the re-certification exercise has become a custom in his orga­nization because it considers safety of the passengers and drivers first before money.