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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has restated its determination to commence the enforcement of the installation of speed limiters by commercial and haulage vehicles operators in Nigeria from April 1.
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Sector Commander of the Corps, Mr. Sunday Oghenekaro, who restated this therefore urged commercial motorists to install Speed Limiting Device (SLD) in their vehicles before April 1 when the agency would begin to sanction defaulters.
Oghenekaro made the appeal recently in Abuja during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) .
“Commercial motorists especially, intercity buses and latched vehicles, should ensure that they put their vehicles in order and install the SLD before the enforcement in April.
“We have been sensitising them to the need to join the agency in its efforts to reduce road crashes especially, speed-related crashes.
“SLD, which is also known as `speed governor’, will help the nation to save more lives and property on our roads.
“We are starting implementation of the policy on commercial motorists because they are more frequent on the highways.
“FRSC usually commences the enforcement of most policies with commercial road users because some of them won’t comply without enforcement,” he said.
Oghenekaro said some fleet operators had also keyed into the policy by installing the device in their fleet, adding that they had confirmed that it had drastically reduced their human and material losses.
FRSC Corps Marshal, Mr. Boboye Oyeyemi, had said commencement of enforcement of the policy on April 1, would not be postponed.
He had also said the agency was ready for the full enforcement of the policy in line with the presidential directive on reduction of road crashes in the country.
FRSC and other regulatory bodies have already accredited some vendors to sell and install the SLD for motorists in the country.
The device is currently sold for between N40, 000 and N45, 000, depending on its additional functions such as car tracking. (NAN)
