Increasing cases of driving against traffic worries FRSC

By Ezurike Ugochukwu

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has cried over the rate at which motorists take to driving against traffic notwithstanding its inherent danger to lives and property.

The act according to the Itori Unit Commander of the Corps in Ogun, Mr Shamaki Yerima who identified driving against traffic as a major challenge confronting its personnel on Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway.

Yerima, stated that incessant cases of driving against traffic and flouting of traffic regulations by drivers, especially at the Itori axis has become worrisome for the command.

Making the position known at an interview on Sunday in Ota, the unit commander said that there was a need to check the innumerable cases of driving against traffic to ensure the safety of lives and property in the zone.

“There is the need for drivers to change their orientation about the use of road so that the highway could be safer for other motoring public.

“Until drivers change their wrong way of using the roads, there will always be continuous negative effects which sometimes lead to loss of lives,’’ he said.

Yerima noted that the fact that some portions of the roads were bad did not grant motorists the liberty to break traffic regulations.

He enjoined them to change their attitudinal behaviours in order to minimise crashes on the highway.

The Unit Commander, however, said that the FRSC personnel had been deployed to areas where motorists were fond of driving against traffic.

He added that  erring drivers would be arrested and prosecuted with stiffer punishment.