FRSC Orders arrest of Overloaded School Buses

…orders retraining of school buses drivers
As part of organised efforts to reduce crashes involving school children in the country, the Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi has ordered the field operatives to clampdown on overloaded private school vehicles plying Nigerian roads.
This was disclosed in a press release issued on Saturday by the spokesman of the Corps, Bisi Kazeem. Kazeem in the statement said the Corps Marshal has directed Sector Commanders across the 36 states of the federation, including the Federal Capital Territory, to impound at sight, any private school bus carrying more than the required number of school children in the bus.

Kazeem reiterated that the operation will be carried out in the morning and afternoon when schools close for the day.
According to Kazeem, quoting the Corps Marshal, the clampdown has become necessary, going by the deliberate efforts made by school proprietors, their management and the bus drivers to make mockery of established laws possibly to achieve some economic gains, at the detriment of the lives of the school children conveyed to and fro school by those buses.
“We have tried to enlighten these drivers and the proprietors on many occasions to make them comply with the minimum safety standards on passengers carriage but they kept contravening the laws. The Corps is championing child safety campaign as it targets to reduce and possibly eradicate all crashes involving school children on our roads”, the statement said.
In the same vein, the Corps Marshal has directed re-training of all school bus drivers nationwide to further concretise the anticipated total safety of school children.
To help the Corps achieve success in this campaign, the public is encouraged to always tune into the National Traffic Radio 107.1FM to report any of such buses seen with overloaded school children or any obstruction or emergency noticed on the road for immediate action.