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IN view of the recent upsurge of overloading on the nation’s highways, and the challenges they pose to all field command operatives, the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has resorted to a more decisive measure to curb the effects of the menace of overloading by organising a special intervention patrol, SIP, along critical corridors from November 7 to 13 November 2016.
Bisi Kazeem, head, Media Relations and Strategy of the Corps, revealed the measure in a press release that Boboye Oyeyemi, corps marshal, had directed that the SIP should be focused on overloading, speed violation, and speed limiting device enforcement, amongst other offences.
Kazeem said that Oyeyemi had expressed optimism that the use of the SIP would help field commands to sustain the enforcement drive on speed limiting device installation in commercial vehicles, while they also continue the sensitisation exercise of the 2016 ember months campaign in order to reduce road carnage often caused by overloading and overspeeding.
While all field command operatives are to be involved in the SIP, commanding officers are to ensure that special attention is given to all crash-prone areas within their jurisdictions, as well as to ensure that officers, marshals and special marshals are adequately mobilised in readiness to fully participate in the exercise.
Oyeyemi, according to the press release, is poised to deliver on the Corps’s mandate of reducing crashes nationwide to the barest minimum.
The selected corridors that are considered as flashpoints for overloading infractions are: Kaduna-Abuja-Lokoja-Okene route, Garaku-Akwanga-NasarawaEggon-Lafia-Makurdi route, Funtua-Tsafe-Gusau-Sokoto route, Lagos-Ogere-Ogunmakin-Ibadan route, Owo-Akure-Ilesha-Ife route, Jos-Toro-Bauchi-Alkaleri-Gombe route, Enugu 9th Mile-Awka-Nteje-IgboUkwu-Onitsha route, Asaba-Isele Uku-Agbor-Abudu-Benin route, and Jebba-Olooru-Bode Saadu route.
Nevertheless, the Corps also enjoined all motorists to continually imbibe good road use culture.
— Nov 2, 2016 @ 17:50 GMT
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