Speed liming device: FRSC tickets 2, 800 commercial vehicles
Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi, has said that 2,800 commercial vehicles nationwide were ticketed at the beginning of the enforcement of the speed liming device nationwide.
According to a statement signed by the Mr. Bisi Kazeem, FRSC Head of Media Relations and Strategy, Oyeyemi said the enforcement was not to inflict pain on motorists and road users.
Oyeyemi said the enforcement was rather for commercial vehicle owners to voluntarily imbibe the culture of its usage and key into it.
He said the advisory enforcement the corps started with was a sort of subtle force that entailed stopping commercial vehicles, verifying electronically whether the devise was fixed.
Oyeyemi said that citations were given to offenders for corrective purposes.
He expressed satisfaction with the advisory enforcement of speed limiting device nationwide as 2,800 commercial vehicles were issued tickets at the beginning.
“The exercise is also known as free safety checks.
“In the coming days, the leadership of the organised transport unions such as NURTW, NUPENG PTD, NARTO, RTEAN LUBOAN shall be involved in the advisory enforcement by joining FRSC top officers to patrol,” he said.
He, therefore, advised commercial vehicle operators to continually patronise the devise as there was no going back on its full and real enforcement come January 2017.
