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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said on Monday that it has resolved to intensify its sensitisation and education programmes to ban the use of food-based and substandard sealing pastes mostly used by vulcanisers to fix tyres across the country.
The Corps said the resolve followed the loss of lives of about 5,000 Nigerians in road crashes resulting from tyre bursts from 2010 till date.
A statement signed by the the Head, Media Relations and Strategy of the Corps, Bisi Kazeem, said the Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi,’s interest to intensify the sensitisation and enforcement campaign in the above-stated areas is further reinforced by the House of Representatives’ Resolution (HR.65/2016) to curb the influx of substandard tyres, non-lubricant rims and fake tyre sealing pastes, as well as the use of food-based products on tyres by vulcanisers.
The statement further said that the Corps Marshal stressed that vulcanisers are culpable for the ways and manners they improperly handle tyres during repairs, and added that the dangerous practice of using fake sealing pastes is capable of causing rusts on new rims, as well as wears on new and standard tyres.
The Corps Marshal had met with the Vulcanisers’ Association to intimate them of their inappropriate and dangerous conducts.
