The Corps Marshal of Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi has said that traffic light violations by motorists will attract a fine of fifty thousand naira beginning from next year, lamenting that the offence was taking a worrisome dimension.
Dr. Oyeyemi, who disclosed this while speaking at the first ‘ember month stakeholders forum’ organised by the FRSC in collaboration with the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, in Abuja, said he had proposed to the Joint Tax Board that the traffic light violation fine should be increased from four thousand naira to fifty thousand naira to deter erring motorists.
The Corps Marshal vowed that his men would continue to arrest and sanction motorists using phones while driving.
He explained that drivers were free to use google map but said the phone should be placed on the dashboard with both hands on the steering wheel.
The FRSC boss condemned in strong terms, a situation where people would veer their anger on officers of the FRSC and personnel of other paramilitary agencies and violently attacked them.
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