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The Inter-Agency Joint Task Force of the Federal Road Safety Corps has apprehended no fewer than 35 trailers conveying 982 passengers along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway and Bauchi-Maiduguri last week.
In a statement on Thursday, the Assistant Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps and Corps Public Education Officer, Jonas Agwu, made the disclosure saying that, the operation that led to the seizures of the number of trucks was a strategy to combat trailer-related accidents and the practice of conveying people in trucks.
The statement explained that, “In what seems to be an effective strategy in the fight against trailer crashes and conveyance of human beings by these same category of vehicles, the Inter-Agency Joint Task Force recently constituted by the Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Dauda Ali Biu, to operate along critical corridors have apprehended 35 trailers carrying 982 passengers.”
The Corps Public Education Officer said that, while tha arrest was made at two different areas, the Inter-Agency Joint Task Force ensured that all passengers onboard the confiscated trailers were dropped and asked to join passenger vehicles suitable for conveying people, while warming against the dangerous act.
As a way of curtailing future occurrence, the statement by the FRSC added that the Corps is embarking on interface with transport unions and articulated vehicle owners in the country to address the issue.
Reports on the development showed that the trailer had rammed into the bridge, leaving the front part of the vehicle hanging off the edge of the bridge.
The Inter-agency Joint Task Force has operatives of the Nigeria Police Force, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps,NSCDC, the State Traffic Management Agencies and operatives of the Corps.
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