Transportation Minister Rotimi Chibike Amaechi has been urged to liaise with management of cement firms on the need to caution their drivers on loss of lives and property they caused through reckless driving on highways.
Secretary to Ota Royal Council, Ogun State High Chief Bamgboye Osunlabu said this yesterday at the yearly public enlightenment/motor park rally with its theme: “Safe driving, saves lives”.
It was organised by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and Shell Nigeria Gas Limited at Ijoko Motor Park on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway at the Tollgate in Ota.
The chief noted that the menace of the trailer drivers could only be curbed, if the Federal Government directed them to stop employing reckless drivers. He said most of the drivers could neither read nor understand highway codes.
Osunlabu said most of them believed they were protected with charms while on the wheel.
The high chief urged the state and Federal Government to enact a law that would stop damage to government property, especially roads, bridges, road demarcations, street/traffic controlling lights, among others, by drivers.
He said any driver found damaging government property should be made to repair them and face the wrath of the law.
He appealed to the government and FRSC authorities to extend their commands’ spaces to enable them have enough spaces to park impounded and accidented vehicles instead of allowing them littering the highways.
The FRSC Ota Unit Commander Leye Adegboyega said the rally was imperative as it was aimed at ending the nonchalant attitude of drivers who cause crashes on the road.
He said unsafe driving means driving against traffic rules/regulations. He said the Corps has embraced public enlightenment as a strategy geared towards reducing road traffic crashes on roads and create a safe motoring.
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