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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) FCT Command has clampdown connected postulation violators nether the ongoing Operation Restore Sanity IV, arresting 254 offenders, including a subject impersonator.
A connection by Olusegun Ogungbemide, Assistant Corps Marshal (ACM) and Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO), released connected Sunday successful Abuja, stated that the FRSC secured a full of 245 convictions.
Ogungbemide stated that the convictions were secured during a bid of Mobile Court sittings held betwixt September 8 and September 12 astatine the Nyanya Unit Command and connected September 10 astatine the Karu Unit Command.
He stated that the peculiar cognition was conducted successful collaboration with the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) and the Nigerian Army Brigade of Guards.
He besides said that it was specifically designed to code the rising tide of postulation indiscipline on the engaged Abuja–Nyanya corridor, notorious for way violations, overloading and reckless driving.
“In all, 254 offenders were arraigned for committing a full of 563 traffic-related offences. Out of these, 245 were convicted, portion 9 were discharged aft owed information by the court.
“The offences chopped crossed a wide spectrum, including seatbelt usurpation (129 cases), driver’s licence usurpation (122 cases), overloading (111 cases), arsenic good arsenic way usurpation (63 cases).
“Other offences specified arsenic unsafe driving, postulation airy violation, fig sheet violation, wrongful overtaking, usage of telephone portion driving, caution motion usurpation and impersonation were besides booked,” helium said.
Ogungbemide said that a peculiarly notable facet of the sittings was the condemnation of 7 notorious offenders.
He named them arsenic Shaab Murtala, Abel Sunday, Sunday Salasi, Benjamin Augustine, Ekem Charles, Hussaini Kabir and Samsudeen Abdullahi.
He said “they were recovered blameworthy of aggregate offences, including unsafe driving, impersonation, overloading, driver’s licence violation, usage of telephone portion driving and way violation.
According to him, their punishments ranged from 3 hours to 5 days of assemblage service.
“In a striking case, Hussaini Kabir, who not lone committed postulation offences but besides impersonated the military, was handed a five-day assemblage work condemnation to beryllium served astatine Mambilla Barracks.
“The Mobile Court sittings were presided implicit by His Worship Maryam Muazu Alhaji and His Worship Huzaifa Maccido, portion the FCT Sector Legal Officer, CRC Cindy Talabi, served arsenic the prosecuting counsel,” helium said.
Speaking connected the result of the exercise, the Corps Marshal, Malam Shehu Mohammed, commended the FCT Command for sustaining peculiar interventions aimed astatine deterring violators and restoring subject connected the roads.
Mohammed noted that the Mobile Court sittings were held astatine his lawsuit arsenic portion of a deliberate nationalist strategy to curb postulation indiscipline.
He disclosed that akin exercises would beryllium replicated crossed each states of the federation to fortify enforcement, deter habitual violators and beforehand safer roads nationwide.
The Corps Marshal further warned motorists to desist from unsafe driving, way violation, overloading and each forms of recklessness.
He stressed that the FRSC would not relent successful prosecuting offenders to safeguard lives and reconstruct sanity connected Nigerian roads.
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