The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) will soon engage operatives of the Directorate of State Security Service (DSS) to help smoke out those behind production of fake drivers licence.
Acting Sector Commander FRSC, Niger State, Mr. Na Magana, said their headquarters had taken the necessary steps towards enlisting the support of DSS so that those behind the issuance of fake Drivers licence would stop.
Most drivers across the country, the Sector Commander said, were operating either with fake drivers’ license or invalid ones, stressing that such was contributing largely to the high accident rate across major highways.
Addressing journalists as part of activities marking the year 2016 ‘African Road Safety and World Day of Remembrance of Road Traffic Victims’, Na Magana also said that the Federal Government had approved the 1st of February, 2017 as deadline for all motorists to install speed limiting devices in their vehicles.
Regretting that despite months of sensitization, many motorists have refused to comply, the sector commander said. He also disclosed: “Not one motorist has complied with the order to install the speed limit device in Niger State.
“The period between now and ending of January 2017 would be for sensitization of motorists after which enforcement would commence.” Magana said that there was a little reduction in the casualty rates in 2015 and the first three quarters of 2016.
In 2015, he said that a total of 479 crashes were recorded with 191 people killed while between January and September this year, 361 cases had been recorded with 147 deaths.
A total of 1, 256 people were injured in the crashes in 2015 and 915 persons injured within the first nine months of this year, the Sector Commander said and therefore appealed to private and commercial motorists to respect the basic road traffic rules to reduce carnages.