Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says it is set for full enforcement of the installation of the Speed Limiting Device on commercial vehicles scheduled to begin nationwide on Wednesday, Feb.1.

Spokesman of the corps, Bisi Kazeem, told newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja that sector and field commands of the agency had been fully mobilised for the exercise.

Kazeem said the Army, Police, Civil Defence Corps, Department of State Services (DSS) and other security agencies had been put on standby to provide security support.

According to him, a portal of Speed Limiting Device (SLD) has been created and is operational, and that a short code to confirm the installation of SLD is active.

He also said Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) had been dispatched with a directive that copies be shared to security agencies within the commands’ areas of jurisdiction.

Kazeem said defaulters would either pay a fine of N3,000 or have their vehicles impounded, to be released after installing the device.

He explained that the decision to begin with commercial vehicles was informed by their high rate of involvement in road accidents across the country.

The enforcement of the SLD installation had been postponed thrice since Sept. 1, 2015, following appeal by stakeholders.

Kazeem said the need to begin with commercial vehicles could not be over-emphasised owing to their high rate of involvement in road accidents across the country.

Citing FRSC statistics, the FRSC spokesman said commercial vehicles accounted for over 50 per cent of the total number of vehicles involved in road accidents in the country.

He explained that vendors of the device had been selected through a screening process by an inter-agency technical committee.

Membership of the committee, according to him, was drawn from the FRSC, Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) and the National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC).