FRSC Prosecutes 300 Road Traffic Offenders On Various Offences In Ondo
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By PETER DADAThe Ondo State Sector Command of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Thursday, July 11, disclosed that it had prosecuted, in its mobile court, no fewer than 300 persons who had committed various traffic offences.
The FRSC Ondo Unit Commander, Assistant Corps Commander, ACC Ayoola Salaudeen, revealed this during the mobile court session in Ondo town, where some traffic offenders were prosecuted.
According to him, the mobile court programme was one of the ways of ensuring that FRSC reduced the high rate of crashes along the Ondo-Ore Expressway and Nigeria as a whole.
He explained: “Accomplishing drastic reduction in road traffic crashes and injuries was a shared responsibility. So far, this is the second time the programme is coming up this year, we have prosecuted about 300. The last one we had was 150 offenders and hopefully today (Thursday) too. Our target is 150 offenders in order to reduce crashes along the Ondo-Ore Road and particularly in Ondo State, to the barest minimum.”
On what constituted the effectiveness of the mobile court, ACC Salaudeen said: “It was one of the best strategies to adopt for the reduction of crashes on the roads.
“The mobile court is the high standard way of enforcement on traffic offenders. That is why we are out today,” the Unit Commander, noted.
Also speaking, the Head of Operations of the Sector Command, Joseph Ajayi, said the mobile court system was effective due to the number of offenders arrested and made to face prosecution.
“The programme today is a success going by the class of offences that we have which included overloading and failure to fix speed limit violation. In recent times, most of the accidents that we witnessed, were on speed, and they involved commercial vehicles that failed to install speed limit devices, coupled with overloading. So, these are the targets. We can say we have achieved the success of it. The offences are overloading violations, and failure to fix speed limit devices on their vehicles.
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