The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has disclosed that 35 regular marshals have been killed by motorists on highways across the country in the last one year. According to the corps, seven out of this number were from Niger State.

The agency said that in one of the incidents in Minna, an FRSC staff was knocked down by a driver while trying to clear obstructions on the highway and has gone through two operations and might lose his manhood as a result of injuries sustained during the car crash.

The FRSC Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi while decrying this, said that the recent  killing of three Marshals and injuring of a Policeman and a staff of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps while on patrol activities at a mobile court sitting at Tsafe, Zamfara state, by a driver of an unregistered Golf vehicle was highly regrettable.

A  statement signed by Bisi Kazeem, Head, Media Relations and Strategy, FRSC, Oyeyemi directed that full weight of law must be applied against the driver for the dastard killings. Kazeem said while carrying out their lawful duties at a mobile court located at Talata Mafara, four FRSC staff, one Policeman, one personnel from the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps were hit by the Golf driver, killing three FRSC Marshals and injuring one. Also injured were a Policeman and a Civil Defence staff who are all recuperating in the hospital after sustaining serious injuries. The victims were all taken to Talata Mafara general hospital, Kazeem said.

Meanwhile, the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), has said that 96,458 vehicles had been checked nationwide since Oct. 1 to ensure compliance with the implementation of speed limiting device.

Mr Bisi Kazeem, Head, Media Relations and Strategy, FRSC, made the disclosure in an interview with newsmen in Abuja.

He said that Cross River, Akwa Ibom and Enugu states topped the compliance list of implementation of the speed limiting device after one month of its commencement and partial enforcement.

Kazeem said that 4,979 vehicles installed the device while 91,479 vehicles were yet to comply bringing the compliance level with five per cent.

He said that Cross River was leading on the compliance list with 738 vehicles, Akwa Ibom second with 650, Enugu 403, Ebonyi 474 and Lagos 256.

He said that the commission was yet to record any vehicle with the device in Adamawa, Taraba,Niger, Kebbi and Yobe states .