The FRSC Zonal Commanding Officer, Zone RS2, FRSC, Mr.
Nseobong Akpabio, said, “We will make sure that we prosecute drivers
apprehended in Lagos and Ogun for failure to secure their containers properly
because we don’t want to continue to see falling containers on the roads,
either killing people or not,” he said.
He spoke in Lagos during a stakeholders’ meeting with the
Association of Maritime Truck Owners and other stakeholders.
Akpabio said that many lives and properties had been lost
over the years as a result of accidents caused by some careless truck drivers.
He said it was discovered that sometimes containers being
moved by trucks could drop on other vehicles or passers-by, if not well
fastened.
Because this had constituted danger to other people’s lives,
Akpbabio said any truck found moving on the road with improperly latched
container would be impounded and the driver/owner would be prosecuted.
He said the FRSC had decided to embark on a safety awareness
campaign before the enforcement, and that it would be meeting truck drivers
operating from the Apapa area of Lagos State on this issue, as well as the need
to conduct vision tests to ascertain their fitness to drive.
The President, AMATO, Chief Remi Ogungbemi, said one of the
major causes of accidents was bad roads.
He also said human error and fatigued drivers could cause
accidents, adding that there was no provision for truck terminals before
loading.
Meanwhile, the FRSC has said it has approved the redeployment
of 40 senior officers as part of its repositioning process for effective
service delivery.
“Details of the recent appointments indicate that six
assistant corps marshals and 33 corps commanders were affected in the exercise,
which witnessed the redeployment of new zonal commanding officers and sector
commanders across the various formations of the corps,” it said in a statement.
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