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'Commercial drivers are becoming violent on the road', Zonal Officer observes

January 22, 2016 3:29 PM

The Zonal Commanding Officer (ZCO) of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) is calling out commercial drivers.

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The Zonal Commanding Officer (ZCO) of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr Alkali Zaki, is calling out commercial drivers.

According to him, these drivers ignore traffic rules, and endanger the lives of patrol officers.

"The drivers are becoming violent on the road: when our marshals ask them to stop they don’t and deliberately knock them down. This attitude is affecting the discharge of our duty and the lives of our officers are being put on the line.

We have lost two of our officers through this reckless attitude in recent times; one was knocked down in December last year at Ireupken in Edo, and the other was knocked down in January this year by a truck at Auchi, also in Edo. So, many of our marshals have also sustained various degrees of injury as a result of being knocked down by wicked drivers."

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