Lagos Nigerian Shippers Council and the Federal Road Safety Corps on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will ensure the immediate removal of trucks, tankers, and trailers from all highways across the country.
The Partnership between the two agencies was setup up to regulate the sector, by creating a centralized database for all trucks, tankers and trailers operators and also identifying the illegal park in the country. With this understanding, all trucks owners would have to comply with the Road Transport Safety Standardisation Scheme.
The Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi noted that the FRSC is partnering with the council to ensure that the new parks being constructed were appropriately located, adding that both agencies were working with the Federal Ministry of Power, Works, and Housing. In his Own words: “We need to get it right, all these indiscriminate parking on our highways must stop. So when you know that you are fully registered and can be punished, everybody will sit up. That is the essence of this,” Oyeyemi stated.
Speaking on the need for the database “we are now going to have a joint database that would be able to tell the country for planning and economic purposes how many trucks we have in Nigeria and also to tell the number of tankers, trailers, and trucks of different categories.”
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Most of these trucks on the highways are over 30 years’ old and that is why we experience frequent breakdowns, especially in areas where the roads are very bad. “We should also be able to tell the state of these vehicles. We also need to provide data to encourage the government to work on re-fleeting.
The Road Transport Safety Standardisation Scheme provides for all the truck owners to register with the corps.
