The Federal Road Safety Corps on Monday commenced an operation on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway to ensure that trucks, trailers and tanker drivers complied with traffic rules. The operation, tagged, Operation Scorpion, started at different strategic points on the expressway, including the Ojota toll gate, Mowe and Ogere areas.
Assistant Corps Marshall, Nseobong Akpabio, who spoke at the FRSC Zone 2 Command Headquarters in Ojota, said the operation would hold as sensitisation exercises between Monday, July 27 and Friday July 31, and continued thereafter as special patrols.
Present were truck drivers, NNPC Petroleum tanker drivers, NNPC marketers, and other stakeholders. Akpabio said, “The attitude of articulated truck drivers on Nigerian roads necessitated the need for a special operation by the corps on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
“The driving habit of these drivers on our road has been a thing of concern. It is important to start this campaign from the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway corridor because Lagos is a hub for these trucks.
“The objective of Operation Scorpion is to optimally deploy the human and material resources available to the corps to ensure compliance to traffic rules by these drivers.”
He said the patrol would focus on unlatched containers, lane indiscipline, rickety vehicles, overloading, and driving licences.
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