..Bello Gave Order To Name and Shame Traffic Offenders

…As Ministerial Team sets to deploy Military Police

ABUJA- The FCT Ministerial Task team on Traffic Management hinted that stricter measures will be talking to ensure route compliance in the face of continued intimidation of its operatives by armed uniform personnel.

This came as a Nigerian Army General who reportedly pulled his gun at a personnel of the Federal Road Safety Corps FRSC on Sunday who flagged him for driving against traffic along the Nyanya-Mararaba route in the territory.

Speaking at a press conference to hint newsmen about the development, the Chairman of the task Team, Comrade Ikharo Attah disclosed said the work of his team would have been made easier courtesy of the cooperation from the civilian population, lamented that armed uniform operatives have become a law unto themselves.

H further stated that FCT Minister, Malam Muhammadu Musa Bello had recently approved a “name and shame” policy for traffic offenders in spite of their status, Mr Attah said his Taskteam is also collaborating with the Military Police who would assist in meting appropriate sanctions on erring military personnel.

Attah who was flanked by representatives of various security agencies as well as the Chief Security Officer to the FCT minister, Rasheed Ahmed, also recalled how some personnel of the Nigerian Correctional Service NCoS had once assaulted the Divisional Police Officer DPO of Karu Division for stopping their official bus from parking wrongly on the expressway.

According to him, “We have the problem of roadside trading which we have almost successfully tackled. The other problem now which I know that the DPO of Karu and the DPO of Nyanya as well as the Kugbo and Karu component of the Directorate of Road Traffic Services DRTS are battling is the issue of those going against traffic – the one way drivers. And we have agreed among us that they are largely done by uniform personnel.”

“We are not disputing that. On the first day our operation commenced in Nyanya, some officers of the Nigerian Correctional Service NCoS beat up the DPO of Karu for telling them not to park on the road.”

“They came down from their bus, attacked him, tore his clothes because they felt they were Correctional Service personnel and were wearing uniforms. Subsequently, the DPO Karu and the FRSC have been battling both police and military personnel on the slope to the point that the Commissioner of Police and some senior officers had to go there in person to ensure enforcement.”

“Last Sunday when we had a problem at Kugbo, we had a very rough encounter with some uniform personnel. We were there when the Corps Marshall of the FRSC arrived at the scene to monitor his men and a General in the Nigerian Army brought out a gun to threaten a road safety official that he would shoot him, and the Corps Marshall had to advise that the road safety official looked at safety first.”

“But we are pushing hard. The beauty of it is that we are getting the military police, Col. Madaki and his men who can punish their own and we know that is going to help us greatly.”

“There was a day the DPO Nyanya had to stop an AIG and the people there were jumping up. They were so sure that he would lose his job that day, but along the line the AIG had to turn back. That very day, the CP was on the hill at Kugbo with the DRTS Director and FRSC Sector Commander, stopping and turning Generals back from taking one way.”

“Law enforcement officers are paid to maintain the law and not to break the law. It is not right because they are putting their own colleagues on the field under pressure. Next time when they take one way and block the road, we will abandon the roads for them and call their superiors to come and meet them on the road.”

“The other challenge is those riding trailers. We asked them not to drive at peak periods. The minister is personally unhappy with that. We need to brace up and ensure that they are off road at such periods because aside from causing more gridlock, when their brakes fail, the casualties are always high and it is usually difficult to evacuate them amidst heavy traffic.”

“There was also a case of suspected theft the other day, where a tanker driver had emptied his contents somewhere else and then left only a little inside the tank and came to deliberately crash the vehicle at Nyanya.

The whole place was thrown into confusion with people running, fearing that the tanker could explode while on our part we were also making efforts to cordon the area not knowing that he had diverted the file elsewhere before and then came to crash the tanker so that it would look like he lost his fuel in the accident”, the Chairman stressed.

https://www.independent.ng/fct-traffic-gridlock-army-general-pulls-gun-on-frsc-operative/

Laws are not designed to apply to everybody........only the weak!

All of you people are same

I was dumbfounded wen I heard it over d radio yesterday. And to think d Corps Marshal of Road safety was even there.. We know Nigerian laws are for d masses

They should kill themselves, we don't care.

The army general knows Nigeria is on auto pilot.

Name and shamed them is the beat option...

No hope for common man

This is seriously serious

The Minister should do something as matter of urgency to stop perennial and constitent and continuous traffic both in the morning and the evening

This problem is becoming unbearable to the motorist

This is embarrassing. Everyone needs to be law abiding.

Make that road 6 lanes, they won't.
Busy stealing money.
A whole connecting road is like village road.
Mtcheeew

Islie:




..Bello Gave Order To Name and Shame Traffic Offenders

…As Ministerial Team sets to deploy Military Police





https://www.independent.ng/fct-traffic-gridlock-army-general-pulls-gun-on-frsc-operative/


Lalasticlala

we no want MP wahala

He must be soo sure nothing will happen. And nothing will happen

Cock n bull story. Propaganda. A guy goes against traffic and he is stopped and brings out a gun saying he is an army general. I heard it on radio and laughed but now that the story is spreading let us get facts right. He could be anybody until they have name rank and vehicle number that proves it's an army general. Was it an army vehicle? What proof do they have. Even if it was an army vehicle is could be an army driver or ADC or...

blackboy:
Cock n bull story. Propaganda. A guy goes against traffic and he is stopped and brings out a gun saying he is an army general. I heard it on radio and laughed but now that the story is spreading let us get facts right. He could be anybody until they have name rank and vehicle number that proves it's an army general. Was it an army vehicle? What proof do they have. Even if it was an army vehicle is could be an army driver or ADC or...

You talk as if you are a new comer in this country called Nigeria.


A DPO in Imo state was filmed few weeks ago fighting a tryclist. It happened in Nigeria.

A DPO once beat up a female traffic warden for stopping him. It happened in Nigeria.

An elderly woman was once flogged by a DPO in Edo state. It happened in Nigeria.

We have so many of these kind of events here in Nigeria. So, if i hear that an army general pulled a gun at FRSC personel i won't even doubt it at all because, We're In Nigeria, A LAWLESS COUNTRY

Oga Army general, go to sambisa and flex your muscle.

Lawless country

Nothing will happen to him....... sure we live in a lawless country

Abba kyari cant even run a country... I think for the sake of northerners themselves they better vote in SouthWest in 2023 so as to enjoy the kind of leadership they last enjoyed with Obasanjo, when our debts where low, secuirity were high and inflation was low

This set of Buhari Northerners are bunch of misfits headed by Abba kyari.. Just few months they handed over to Professor Osinbajo.. forex became stable, Niger Delta Militants stoped bombing, economy grew, DSS boss got sacked and arrested, Kanu got his liberty, N-Power and Trader money started, Lagos - Ibadan rail Started

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Hmmm

This FRSC people always drunk with power.

If i do that, i'll be shot dead.

Send the gun throttling idiot to borno state for full show of force

Nigeria

Hmmm

It's no big deal, one day high rank police officer did same to me exactly at the bridge that link to doyin orile if you are coming from constain.
Just because there was traffic and he came from the other side facing traffic and couldn't join the lane to climb the bridge, I was busy shaking my head. This country is gone, no hope again at least for now.

Ok

sapientia:
The army general knows Nigeria is on auto pilot.

Very obvious

maynation:
Oga Army general, go to sambisa and flex your muscle.

He would rather use the power to oppress instead.

Nawa.... Officials of the Nigerian Army are always too erratic and unprofessional. The feel they are above the the law.




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