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FRSC Warns Dangote
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FRSC Warns Dangote Drivers on Careless on the
Road
The Federal Road Safety Corps has tasked Dangote Group on prompt
removal of broken down vehicles and the need to intensify efforts
towards achieving professionalism in the recruitment, training and
certification of its drivers as a critical measure to reducing
crashes on the highways.
According to a statement issued by Bisi Kazeem, the Corps Public
Education Officer, the meeting is part of the ongoing concerted
efforts by the Corps to reduce the rate of occurrence of crashes
involving articulated vehicles and also ensure prompt removal of
broken down vehicles on the highways.
The Corps Marshal, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi who spoke extensively
during the meeting lamented the spate of crashes involving Dangote
Trucks and called on the group to make the training, retraining and
certification of drivers a major priority in the operation of their
fleet.
” There is need for the company to be strict in its recruitment
process for drivers; requirements such as age for both entry and
retirement should be made a priority issue to avoid under age
driving and maintain a fixed age for retirement”.
To achieve the aforementioned, Oyeyemi charged the group to
establish more driving schools and also make it open to the public
so that drivers and would be drivers can apply for training as this
will go a long way in making the highways safer for all to use.
Pursuant to the need to curb all incidences of crashes involving
Dangote Trucks, the Corps Marshal gave the following ultimatum;
1. All Dangote trucks to be fully installed with Speed Limiting
Device before 31 December, 2019.
2. Dangote to provide details of any driver who commits traffic
infraction to FRSC for subjection to Emotional Stability Test
3. The Company to provide details of any driver who runs away
after a crash to FRSC for flagging on the database so as to track
such drivers and prevent reissuance of NDL.
4. FRSC and Dangote Group to commence a joint effort to ensure
that all abandoned or broken down Dangote Trucks are towed within
the next 30 days commencing from 18 September to 17 October,
2019.
5. All Dangote Trucks to have at least a mini first aid box
6. Dangote Trucks not allowed to drive from 7pm to 7am, any of
the company’s truck found around that time will be impounded at
sight.
7. Foreign number plates on the company’s trucks to be replaced
with Nigeria Number Plates before 31 December, 2019.
8. Periodic and random driver’s eye check should be conducted
for the fleet drivers.
Responding, the head of the delegation, Mr Juan Carlos Rincom
appreciated the FRSC for its unwavering commitment to sanitising
the highways and pledged the company’s willingness to carry out all
resolutions made in the meeting.
Bisi Kazeem
Corps Public Education Officer