On Thursday The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said it had
arrested 305 motorists for 345 life-threatening traffic offences since the
launch of its Operation Cobra on July 1.
According to source
The Corps Marshal of the agency, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, who
disclosed this in Abuja , said nine
of the arrested offenders passed the psychological test administered on them.
This, according to him, means that their actions were as a
result of willful violation of regulations.
Oyeyemi spoke at a one-day national workshop organised by
the FRSC for driving school operators.
He reiterated the commitment of the FRSC to enforce the new
policy of subjecting life-threatening traffic law offenders to psychological test.
According to him, the actions of such violators were
deviation from the true nature of Nigerians as a “cultured, disciplined and
enterprising people who have faith in life and those of others’’.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Operation
Cobra is a new road safety enforcement policy of the FRSC designed to subject
violators of certain traffic offences to mental stability evaluation.
The offences are use of phone while driving, route
violation, traffic light violation, dangerous driving and overloading.
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