The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has said that in pursuant of its commitment towards making the highways safe, it has within the second quarter of the year, covering the period from April to June 2023, apprehended a total of 8,592 traffic offenders for committing 179,165 offences.
In a release by the FRSC and signed by the Corps Education Officer, Assistant Corps Marshall, Bisi Kazeem, the traffic management agency said that during the same period, 64,544 drivers were educated, while 5,431 motor park rallies conducted; just as the Corps organised 1,950 community visits to consolidate on existing enlightenment campaigns.
The statement siad that in addition, 210,404 road traffic offenders were stopped, while 45,335 cautioned against all manner of non-compliance with traffic regulations.
It added, “In the same period, the Corps intensified its enlightenment and sensitisation campaigns by conducting 286 television and 2,431 radio programmes to reach the mass population of the motoring public.”
The Corps Marshal, Dauda Ali Biu, while reacting to the data, called on the motoring public to always heed established traffic regulations and avoid all behaviours that could trigger crashes on the roads.
