The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Boboye Oyeyemi, has announced that enforcement of the speed limiters on commercial vehicles will commence nationwide on October 1, 2016.

Oyeyemi said this on Wednesday in Abuja during a stakeholders’ meeting with relevant government agencies and transport unions.

A statement by the Head, Media Relations and Strategy, FRSC, Bisi Kazeem, said the Corps Marshal, commended all the stakeholders for endorsing the use of speed limiters, noting that without such support, it would have been difficult for the country to get to where enforcement date would no longer be controversial.

He commended the leadership of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria and the National Automotive Design and Development Council for their technical inputs into the policy, saying that it was such collaboration that enhanced the decision of other stakeholders to adopt the policy.

Oyeyemi recalled that the initial date set for the commencement of the enforcement of the law was June 1, 2015, stating that the date had to be extended to allow for further consultations and more public enlightenment programmes.

He noted that the period fell within the week that the present administration was inaugurated.

The FRSC boss added that when the Corps made presentation to President Muhammadu Buhari and suggested September 1, 2015 as the commencement date, the President extended the date to April 1, 2016.

Oyeyemi explained that in the process of commencing the enforcement on the date set by the President, a motion was passed on the floors of the two chambers of the National Assembly suspending the enforcement pending when a public hearing was conducted by the House Committee on the FRSC to determine the desirability of the policy.

The Corps Marshal noted that with the House’s approval of the policy based on public acceptance during the public hearing and its consideration of the relevance of the device in the campaign against speed-related road carnage in the country, it unanimously lifted the suspension order upon which the President gave a new enforcement date of October 1.

He called on stakeholders to take the new date with all seriousness and ensure that their members, especially commercial operators’ abide by the regulations by ensuring that their vehicles were installed with the devices before the commencement of enforcement to avoid sanctions.

Oyeyemi said, “The policy on the use of the speed limiters device was carefully enunciated based on expert advice of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria; the National Automotive Design and Development Council as well as stakeholders’ support as a way of addressing the challenges of speed-related road carnage in the country.

“It is our hope that with the October 1 enforcement date approved by the President, relevant stakeholders would join hands to make the implementation successful.”

In his remarks, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs, which has oversight powers over the FRSC, Senator Tijani Kaura, applauded the FRSC for introducing the speed limiter.

 

Source: Punchng.com

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