Fallen Containers: FRSC Impounds 208 Trucks In Lagos

The Lagos State Sector Commander of Federal Road Safety Corps, Mr Olusegun Ogungbemide, says the command made 368 arrests over trucks with unlatched containers in the last two weeks.

Mr Ogungbemide told the News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN), on Friday during his visit to the Badagry Unit of FRSC.

He Contiuned by saying that the command had set up three different enforcement interventions, to curb the menace of unlatched container truckers on the road.

Operation Scorpion was set up to check the menace of the unlatched container trucks that are falling on Lagos roads.

“In the first week, the Scorpion 11 arrested 218 trucks and impounded 208.

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“50 of them were presented before the Magistrate in mobile court.

“Because we realised that the falling trucks were happening within the metropolis, we started with Scorpion 111, and this will end tomorrow.

As at two days ago, we had arrested close to 150, making 368 altogether in two weeks.

“The signal is already sent that it is no longer business as usual,” he said.

The sector commander commended sister security agencies, for working together with the Badagry Unit of the command, to ensure sanity on the highways.

On ember months, Mr Ogungbemide said that the command had put necessary measures in place since January to ensure safe road use till the end of the year.

“We have been laying the foundation for what the end of the year will look like.

“Our men have been very active, well-deployed, our public enlightenment machinery has also been well deployed, he added.

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