Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi has ordered the clampdown on overloaded private school vehicles plying Nigerian roads as part of organised efforts to reduce crashes involving school children.
In a statement by the Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, 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 also said the clampdown has become very 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.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
