By Cyber Era Reporter
As part of organised efforts to eliminate or reduce drastically crashes involving school children, road safety regulator in Nigeria, the Federal Road Safety Corps(FRSC) through the instrumentality of its field operatives, is clamping down on overloaded private school vehicles plying the roads.
An FRSC information on this development, seen by Cyber Era and authored by the spokesman of the Corps, Corps Commander Bisi Kazeem, said the Corps Marshal Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi had directed Sector Commanders across the 36 states of the federation, including the Federal Capital Territory, to impound at sight, any private school bus carrying more than the required number of school children in the bus.
FRSC operatives will carry out this operation in the morning and afternoon when schools close for the day.
According to Kazeem, the clampdown had become very necessary going by the deliberate efforts made by school proprietors, their management and the bus drivers to make mockery of established laws possibly to achieve some economic gains, at the detriment of the lives of the school children conveyed to and fro school by those busses.
Said he: ” We have tried to enlighten these drivers and the proprietors on many occasions to make them comply with the minimum safety standards on passengers carriage but they kept contravening the laws. The Corps is championing child safety campaign as it targets to reduce and possibly eradicate all crashes involving school children on our roads”.
In the same vein, the Corps Marshal had directed retraining of all drivers of this category nationwide to further concretise the anticipated total safety of school children.
To help the Corps achieve success in this campaign, the public is encouraged to always tune into the National Traffic Radio 107.1FM to report any of such buses seen with overloaded school children or any obstruction or emergency noticed on the road for immediate action.
The Station can also be reached through its Social Media Handles as follows; WHATSAPP 08052997848, FACEBOOK TRAFFICRADIO 1, TWITTER @TRAFFICRADIO 1, INSTAGRAM TRAFFICRADIO 1. Or Call the following numbers; GLO 08052998090, MTN 09067000015, and SMS on GLO 08052998012 and the FRSC toll free emergency line 122.
