By Iquo Williams, Abuja
In it commitment towards making the highways safe, the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC in Nigeria says within the second quarter of the year 2023, a total of 8,592 traffic offenders were apprehended for committing 179,165 offences.
The Assistant Corps Marshal Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem in a statement issued in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital said this cover the period from April to June 2023.
In the same period, Kazeem disclosed that 64,544 drivers were educated, 5,431 motor park rallies conducted and the Corps organised 1,950 Community Visits to consolidate on existing enlightenment campaigns.
In addition, 210,404 road traffic offenders were stopped while 45,335 cautioned against all manner of non compliance with traffic regulations.
He said the Corps has intensified it’s 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 to established traffic regulations and avoid all behaviours that could trigger crashes on the roads.
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