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The Head, Media Relations and Strategy, Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Mr. Bisi Kazeem, has insisted that the driver to the late Mr. James Ocholi had no driver’s license record with the commission.
Kazeem , who declared this in a chat with the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN), debunked the news making the round in the social media that Mr. Taiwo Elegbede, the driver of the ill-fated vehicle that claimed the lives of Ocholi and his family members has a driver’s license.
Kazeem said: “Elegbede is not captured in our driver’s licensing data, so the license he claimed to have expired must be a fake one.
“Our license procedure includes physical presence and biometric capturing of applicants which is permanently stored in our data bank, for the purpose of verification.
“We always tell members of the public to visit our licensing centres spread across the country and desist from patronizing touts while applying for their driver’s license.
“Elegbede cannot be called a competent driver if he does not have a genuine driver’s license, which he can only acquire showing mastery of basic driving principles.”
Also, reacting to the claim that the vehicle was not originally that of their ministry, Kazeem said: “A good driver must perform a routine check on his vehicles before driving out, it is not an excuse to say because the vehicle was provided by another office and he should ignored a check on it.”
Ocholi, his wife and a son died in an accident along Kaduna-Abuja Highway on Sunday, March 6, while the driver and the police orderly sustained serious injuries. (NAN)
