2 000 traffic offenders prosecuted during Christmas

Onitsha - Boboye Oyeyemi, the Corps Marshal
of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), said on
Tuesday that the commission's mobile court
had jailed five motorists for violating traffic
rules during the Christmas celebration.
Oyeyemi spoke after inspecting traffic flow
between both ends of the Niger Bridge
between Onitsha in Anambra and Asaba in
Delta.
The corps marshal also said that over 2 000
others were arraigned before the court set up
to prosecute traffic offenders nationwide.
"As at December, about 2 000 offenders were
arraigned before mobile courts and I think
about five were jailed and only about 15 were
discharged.
"But all others were given fines ranging from
N1 000 to N10 000".

The corps marshal said that the offences of
traffic offenders ranged from land violation,
overspeeding, overloading of passengers,
violation of seat belt use, violation of children
safety to lack of passengers' manifest in the
vehicle.
He said 14 per cent reduction in road crashes
was recorded within the 2014 yuletide period
as a result of improved planning and greater
service delivery on the part of the corps
special and regular marshals.