“I have never seen a road safety official stopping a government convoy for dangerous driving; why is it so?"

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, is speaking out on the inability for the Federal Road Safety Commission(FRSC) to do their jobs properly.

Speaking at the 6th FRSC Annual Lecture Series, themed

Alhaji Abubakar called on the appropriate people to empower the FRSC with this power.

“It is important for us to see how we can come up with a frame work where FRSC would be empowered to do certain things that are abnormal like arresting a big man who is driving dangerously.

I have never seen a road safety official stopping a government convoy for dangerous driving; why is it so?

He also called out VIPs to breaking traffic rules, such as over speeding and more.

When addressing the VIPs, I think it’s important for us to caution our drivers, especially government convoys that drive anyhow because they feel the roads are theirs,” he said.

The Sultan said this needs to be done because road safety is the responsibility of everyone.

Boboye Oyeyemi, the FRSC Marshal, backed him up by saying that road crashes has resulted in 1.3 million deaths and 50 million injuries worldwide.

Oyeyemi added that Nigeria has suffered 345,908 accident related deaths from independence to date.

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