Following the death of 18 persons in a crash involving an articulated vehicle on the Abuja-Kaduna Highway on Sunday, the Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Mr Dauda Biu, has directed that vehicles conveying humans and animals together should be impounded.

Apart from those who lost their lives to the crash, 27 other passengers sustained injuries in the accident that involved 65 persons.

The crash occurred at about 5:20am when the driver of the articulated vehicle, overloaded with goods and humans and travelling at a high speed, lost control and fell into a ditch on the highway.

“To reverse the trend, all Sector Commanders are to set up joint task forces to impound trailers and trucks carrying humans and animals. The courts should prosecute the drivers,” Biu said in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja by Deputy Corps Marshal Bisi Kazeem.

Kazeem added that Biu instructed sector commanders to set up joint task forces in collaboration with sister agencies to conduct special operations to end the practice.

Biu noted that it was necessary for agencies like the police, the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, the Army, and Vehicle Inspection Officers, among others, to collaborate and curb the menace.

He described Sunday’s accident as avoidable, while decrying the nonchalant attitude of drivers who disregard simple traffic rules.

Source: https://dailytrust.com/trucks-carrying-humans-animals-together-will-be-impounded-frsc-warns/

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I wonder if it was legal hitherto cos it's been going on for ages and they turn a blind eye, whereas if a private car commits the slightest offence, it's treated to the full extent of the law.

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Nothing can stop this trend
because it's the way of the north &
northern peasants .

👉1) A lorry carrying cows and goats
usually needs handlers that constantly
controls the animals cargo.

👉2) Many northern youth are escaping
from the endemic poverty, inequality &
Insecurity that has become fully entrenched
in their region & the only available option
to Japa to southern Nigeria is by lorry, or
trailers that carry goods. They can pay
about 5k to the driver and then manage
anywhere they can find in the back of the
truck with the animals.

No suffering northern youth can afford
the bus fare of 25 to 40k fares from different regions of Nigeria to Lagos, Ibadan PH etc.

👉 And generally the only Nigerians you
see boarding goods carrying lorries or trailers from South to north or north to south are
people of Muslim North. Everyone else use buses or taxis.


But again, the whole issue is the fault of
the failed government that has failed to
provide alternatives.
In every normal country, rail transport is
an alternative to the costlier air or road
transportation, but this has failed in Nigeria,
giving poor people no option.
The only option is to be trekking from
Kano to Ibadan/ Lagos or travel with cows
and donkeys as co-passengers.😕😕😕

Talk is very cheap.

Even if this will be implemented,trust me it's only in the south.

Most of these cases is seen in the north,but nothing will happen to the offenders.

Some group are above the law.

Na Hausa,Fulani and Yoruba do this thing pass.

If dem bring money, shey you no go collect?


Dey play

Right

The cries of the animals have been heard, finally.

Lmao!
Humans are higher animals naa. There should be no discrimination!

Nawaoh ...so how will aboki manage to make it to the southern part of this Country..can aboki afford transport from sokoto to abia state? The solution is to build railway across all the state capital of Nigeria and make it affordable..if u get to the capital..then u can sort yourself out.. again this is Nigeria our leaders are criminals

I support this.
Any animal that wants to travel should go with their own trucks

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Fulani herdsmen left d WhatsApp group

Same thing comes to my mind. Most Fulani won't like this at all. Though this is Nigeria sha where bribing will still make the law not to work properly.

Chaii, so how ibadan people and their aboki masters go take dey travel upandan now?


On the brighter side, there will be less people from OYO, ekiti etc laying claim to lagos

after reading this, only one tribe comes to mind.

Notice to


Aboki


People

In the face of bribe.

Some cows are better than some human beings, especially those supporting TINUBU AND APC GOVERNMENT.

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