The Federal Street Security Corps has launched a right away nationwide operation to curb the transportation of petroleum and different inflammable substances in passenger autos.
The initiative, ordered by the Corps Marshal, Shehu Mohammed, goals to forestall fire-related accidents on Nigeria’s highways.
In a press release launched on Friday, the FRSC Public Training Officer, Olusegun Ogungbemide, introduced that the operation will contain a large deployment of patrol groups to seek for and handle the presence of hazardous supplies in passenger autos.
The FRSC can even conduct consciousness campaigns to coach highway customers on the risks of transporting inflammable substances.
The operation is available in response to latest fire-related highway crashes, which investigations revealed had been typically brought on by drivers carrying petroleum merchandise.
“You’d recall that pursuant to a lot of fireplace associated highway crashes that occured on the nation’s highways in latest instances, the corps marshal had ordered a radical investigation with a view to unravel the primary explanation for the inferno.
“The investigation report revealed that drivers typically carry petroleum merchandise whereas on transit. As such, within the occasion of a crash, the influence typically leads to flames resulting in coronary heart wrecking fatalities that will have been prevented.
“So as to carry this to a halt, the corps marshal has additionally directed the Public Training Officers nationwide to enrich the intervention patrol with aggressive sensitisation of highway customers,” Ogungbemide acknowledged.
As a part of the operation, drivers caught carrying such supplies might face prosecution for compromising the security of their passengers.
“The corps marshal additionally directed that not like the standard operations, in the midst of this intervention patrol, drivers might be prosecuted for compromising the security of their passengers.
“He additional narrated that no excuse is appropriate for such dastardly act. It’s to be a civil engagement that targets at making certain that these merchandise when sighted, are emptied into the gasoline tank of the autos,” the assertion added.
Mohammed known as on passengers to prioritise their security by reporting autos carrying inflammable substances to FRSC patrol groups or by emergency strains.