The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, has ordered his field operatives to clamp down on overloaded school vehicles.
This, he said, was part of efforts to reduce crashes involving vehicles conveying school children.
Oyeyemi disclosed this in a statement signed by the Corps Public Education Officer, Mr Bisi Kazeem, on Saturday in Abuja.
He directed Sector Commanders across the 36 states of the federation, including the Federal Capital Territory to impound any school bus carrying more than the required number of school children on the bus.
He said, “This operation will be carried out in the morning and afternoon when schools close for the day.
“The clampdown has become very necessary going by the deliberate efforts made by school proprietors, their management and the bus drivers to make a mockery of established laws possibly to achieve some economic gains.
“And this is at the detriment of the lives of the school children conveyed to and fro school by those busses.
” We have tried to enlighten these drivers and the proprietors on many occasions to make them comply with the minimum safety standards on passenger carriage but they kept contravening the laws.
“The corps is championing child safety campaign as it targets to reduce and possibly eradicate all crashes involving school children on our roads.”
Oyeyemi also directed the re-training of all drivers in this category to further achieve the total safety of school children.
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