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Breaking News: FRSC Announces Motorists Risks Six Months In Jail

  • FRSC Announces that motorists using earphones now risk six months in jail.

EkohotBlog reports that the Federal Road Safety Corps says it remains illegal to receive or make telephone calls while driving, regardless of any wireless gadget used for such communication.

The corps further said “drivers who make or receive calls behind the wheels with AirPods, EarPods or any form wired or wireless earphones and handsfree mode risk six months in jail.”

The Public Education Officer of the Corps, Bisi Kazeem, in an interview with Saturday PUNCH, monitored by our reporter revealed that driving requires total concentration and road users should not take any risk on their lives. FRSC will not stand watching without taking action to protect people.

He expressed that it is illegal to make calls or receive the same while driving, according to the National Road Traffic Regulations, 2012.

Kazeem said in the interview that, “It is illegal. Driving entails 100 percent concentration so you cannot be distracted. It is there in the regulation.

 “It is clear from the provisions of Reg 166 (1) that it is illegal to make a phone calls using EarPods earphone or whatever means.”

Tosin Ishowo

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