Federal Road Safety Corps mobile court on Tuesday convicted 104 road
traffic offenders during a special inter-state patrol and
enlightenment exercise within the Ozubulu-Okaji-Ihiala-Mgbidi-Njaba
areas of the Onitsha-Owerri road.
The traffic offenders, mostly commercial bus drivers, were convicted
for offences ranging from worn-out tyres, non-use of seat belts,
non-availability of caution signs, overloading and lack of passengers'
manifest among other infractions.
Speaking on the exercise tagged 'Ember Months Signal', at Ozubulu near
Onitsha, the FRSC Sector Commander in Imo State, Mr Yusuff Salami,
said the inter-state patrol involved officers and men from Ihiala Unit
Command in Anambra State and Njaba Unit Command in Imo State.
Salami said, "We have already entered the 'Ember' months and in ember
months, people have a wrong belief that when the ember months come
people must die
"Because they believe that, maybe there is a demon on the road that is
killing people; since the establishment of the FRSC, we believe that
there is no demon or blood sucking demon on the road killing the
people.
"The problem that we are encountering is that in ember months,
commencing from September, October, November to December, there is
increase in vehicular and human movement on the road.
"You have all sorts of people, all sorts of drivers that are not
following laid down rules and regulations on the usage of the road.
"Hence, once we come to that period, we intensify our efforts in
enforcement activities and public enlightenment.
"Just to increase awareness as well as enforce the rules and
regulations so that the rate of the road crashes come to the minimum;
and it has become our ritual and we have been doing it year-in,
year-out and we have been seeing positive results.''
Also, FRSC Sector Commander in Anambra State, Mr Sunday Ajayi, said
the exercise would help both sector commands to achieve the FRSC 2014
goals, which is reduction of road traffic crashes by 15 per cent and
reduction of road fatality by 25 per cent.
Ajayi added that the commands would make the exercise a continuous one
for the benefit of road users within the Onitsha-Owerri road corridor.
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