A total of one hundred and fifty-six Traffic offenders for failure to install Speed Limiting Device in trucks and commercial vehicles within Lagos State.

They were arrested by operatives of the Lagos Sector Command of Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC.

According to its Sector Commander, Corps Commander Olusegun Ogungbemide, the enforcement was carried out simultaneously across the State with focus on Speed Limiting Device violation,
Number plate violation, failure to properly passenger manifest by inter-state commercial vehicles.

The operations he stated commenced as part of the Command’s intervention patrol aimed at achieving reduction in Road Traffic Crashes involving Articulated Trucks and Inter-state commercial vehicles.

The FRSC boss also stated that a total of one hundred and eighty vehicles were stopped out of which one hundred and fifty-six were issued tickets for various offences while fifty-two vehicles was impounded and one hundred and four documents confiscated during the exercise.

In similar vain, he sayscthe Command decries the recent trend by VIPs, Motorists who are fond of replacing their number plates with pet names.

The FRSC boss states that number plate has security features that should not be tampered with under any disguise.

In his words, the command had noticed a new trend of aberration and disregard to law and order. A situation where some Very Important Personalities (VIPs) and motorists change one of their Number Plates, which comes in pairs, with their pet names or their popular slogans can no longer be tolerated.

He notes that private/commercial number plates comes in pairs meant for both front and rear of the vehicle except for Articulated vehicle number plates that comes in three.

Ogungbemide further stated that all trucks owners that do not have capacity to adhere to miminum safety standards for their trucks should take their vehicles off Lagos roads to avoid being apprended.

He therefore advised all motorists to always obey traffic rules and regulations.

His statement is made public through FRSC Public Education Officer, Route Commander Olabisi Sonusi.