FRSC To Withdraw Licences of Recalcitrant Drivers- Corps Marshal
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has announced that it will henceforth revoke the driver’s licenses of recalcitrant drivers.
Corps Marshal, Shehu Mohammed, made this statement on Friday in Abuja while addressing newsmen on the outcome of the 2024 Eid-el Kabir Special Patrol Operations, which took place between June 14 and June 23.
He said that the Corps had realized more than ever before the increasing need for collective participation and collaboration among all stakeholders.
Mohammed also emphasized that the Corps leveraged this as a necessary tool to help achieve the desired outcomes during the periods under consideration.
According to him, some of these activities include strengthening ongoing Inter-agency Joint Task Force to mitigate the excesses of trailer drivers.
He added that enforcing compliance on the indiscriminate use of trailers to convey human beings was also a key activity.
This also includes aggressive public enlightenment, robust media engagement, and aggressive advocacy campaigns carried out in motor parks across the Federation, he said.
Finally, we identified and mapped strategic routes across the country and deployed appropriate personnel and logistics to cover them, Mohammed stated.
The FRSC boss said that the Corps had a robust engagement with the leadership of various Transport Unions, Security Agencies, State Traffic Management Agencies, and the FCT Department of Road Traffic Services
Nine people died and 13 others were injured in a road crash on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
Mohammed stated that all these efforts were done to ensure that every stakeholder, both in the public and private sector, plays a cardinal role in entrenching safety on the highways.
On the strength of these efforts, I want to bring to your notice that we have added to the conventional enforcement of traffic regulations on articulated vehicles. We have gone a step further by commencing prosecution of recalcitrant drivers through Mobile Court operations in all 36 states of the Federation and the FCT, he said.
Subsequently, more drastic measures, including suspension and withdrawal of national driver’s licenses, will be carried out.
Before the commencement of the 2024 Sallah special patrol, the FRSC Corps Marshal had spoken on the mileage to achieve in reducing road traffic crashes.
These include fatalities, injuries, as well as traffic offenders on the nation’s highways.
