FRSC boss orders action against overloading

The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr Boboye Oyeyemi has ordered the immediate step up of patrol operations and also directed commanding officers to ensure strict enforcement on critical offences.

He list the offences to include overloading, rickety vehicles, removal of extra lights, and enforcement of compliance on restriction of motorcycles and tricycles to their designated routes.

In a statement by the Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, the Corps Marshal gave the directives following the imperatives of sustaining existing efforts geared at achieving its year 2020 corporate strategic goals of minimising the risk of death on the road by reducing road traffic crashes by 15% and fatality by 20%.