Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says plans are underway to compel traffic offenders to pay one hundred thousand naira as penalty for a traffic offence.

Oyeyemi said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sideline of the Technical Working Group (TWG) on Nigeria Road Safety Strategy on Wednesday in Abuja.

“You cannot arrest somebody for using a phone while driving and he pays four thousand naira as penalty. And almost immediately he goes back to commit same offence.

“Fines are supposed to serve as deterrent, which is why I said that I am in support of what the National Assembly is doing presently amending the Act of the FRSC to make the fines go up.

“I was not the one that initiated it, it is the National Assembly that initiated it and I am in support and I will make sure that before the middle of next year this is passed into law.

“I believe that by the time traffic offenders’ start paying between fifty to one hundred thousand naira for a single traffic offence, they will not want to commit such offence again,” he said.

The FRSC boss reiterated that penalties for traffic offences were to serve as deterrent, adding that the present regime of fines and penalties do not serve as deterrent.

https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2017/12/20/frsc-plans-penalise-traffic-offenders-n100000-fine/

Choi. That's a huge amount of money

Minimum wage is 18k

Cost of living is averaged at 25k

You can't even pay salary as a country...

Yet you fine your citizens 100k for traffic violations

I don't blame these windbags ruling us. I blame the dumb followers encouraging them

If the frsc wants it's officers to be massively admitted to various morgues or emergency care units in the country by middle of next year then they should implement the bill.

GAZZUZZ:


Dem no give dem gun, dem wan de obtain 100k for road, may the lord be with dem in this new journey

Amen

I fore-pity the brutality that will be inflicted on any FRSC official that approach a traffic offender to pay 100k.

They should come and collect it

So im driving my 3rd hand golf 2 jeje wey no reach 120k , i now commit offense you want to collect 100k , abeg just collect the car and gimme change

raker300:
Minimum wage is 18k

Cost of living is averaged at 25k

You can't even pay salary as a country...

Yet you fine your citizens 100k for traffic violations

I don't blame these windbags ruling us. I blame the dumb followers encouraging them

Zoo of a country

Naa to kuku ma leave the motor


Depends on d ride though

Joker. Make it 100k and see Road safety officials become millionaires overnight.
Instead of going to the bank to pay 100k drivers will give 10k to the officers and move on.
Infact the road safety officers would suggest that to you as a form of subsidy.

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That's much na

Where all these money dey enter sef

This will be a welcome development.


However, the safety of FRSC officials will be jeopardized as many offenders won't mind running over them in a bid to escape paying such useless fine.


No be today yansh dey back jare!

madness in high places, even the 4k fine is too much for our 18k minimum wage. the APC government us only concerned on how to borrow money and forcefully extort more money from Nigerians, they have increased the price of everything from driving license to international passport, now it's traffic offense fine? bunch of thieving idiots.

On any offence?

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with this, the death rate of FRSC officials is going to increase cause that's a reasonable amount to kill for.

Chidoka as pioneer has transformedFRSC to FIRS

Oyeyemi's salary is not even upto 100k

When you make non-human friendly laws, it somehow gets to you.

As if this mumuyemi can pay such fine in this bastardized economy.

Increase d fines and watch ur staffs get knocked down by fleeing offenders who will do everything possible to evade arrest

Mumu people. Why won't he be in support? Small fines aren't the reason people commit offenses. People keep committing traffic offenses because of inconsistent enforcement. If traffic officers exact the dues from every offender instead of negotiating 1k by the road side, a legit 5k fine would be enough to deter an unruly motorist. But they turn a blind eye to some, and thereby encourage others to be "sharp guys".

More chop money for them!

How many people driving have 100k?

Stupid Boboye should realise that traffic fines are always a fraction of the minimum wage of any society so he shouldnt come and turn road safety into a revenue drive and collection agency as that willl bring corruption into it as officers will use the opportunity to start unduly harrasing drivers in a bid to extort a fraction of this 100k for their personal pocket ..we saw that in the Fashola days of a corrupt Lastma where every officer suddenly became a seatbelt offence spotter all in a bid to extort people for personal gains..The road safety can find better ways to discourage from breaking Traffic law by by thinking smarter instead of attempting to be a revenue generation agency for govt and its corrupt officers .

That means FRSC will have more casualties next year..
If am on call and I suddenly drive into their checkpoint,na to brush everybody b dat na
No b only 100k

All they ever know is to collect fines . There are too many potholes and bad roads in those stupid roads the mount checkpoints yet they are not bothered about the accidents they can cause, na to collect fine be their interest.

FRSC if you want to collect fine, come and take it.

Time to tune up my car. Mad-Max style.

How much be the car self ?
How much be Danfo bus or Golf 2

GAZZUZZ:


Dem no give dem gun, dem wan de obtain 100k for road, may the lord be with dem in this new journey

UbanmeUdie:





This will be a welcome development.


However, the safety of FRSC officials will be jeopardized as many offenders won't mind running over them in a bid to escape paying such useless fine.


No be today yansh dey back jare!

All of you shouting FRSC official will have their safty jeopardized are just amusing me! Do you think the FRSC officials are mumu too? The bill is just to turn the FRSC officials to millionaires, as they will rather collect something like 5k or 10k and let you go instead of officialy fining you and you yourself will be happy too

A country that makes its top priority leaching its citizen's..








The person that made this foolish statement should be shot in the head...... Twice, js to make sure

raker300:
Minimum wage is 18k

Cost of living is averaged at 25k

You can't even pay salary as a country...

Yet you fine your citizens 100k for traffic violations

I don't blame these windbags ruling us. I blame the dumb followers encouraging them

Cost of human life from reckless driving is worth more than 100k.

If it deters carelessness and road rage then im all for it.