FRSC Gwagwalada Unit Commander, Mr. Sunday Attah, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday warned against the act.
He also spoke against carrying two passengers in the front seat of a vehicle meant to take one person, warning that the commission will continue to apprehend and punish drivers breaking traffic rules.The FRSC unit commander, however, said erring drivers were being arrested and fined various sums, like N76, 000, for different traffic offences.
“The truth is that you have to be alive to do the job. Some of the drivers will want to run on us whenever we stop them, but we usually apprehend them,’’ he said.Mr. Obiora Emeka, a commercial driver in the FCT and some of his colleagues overload their vehicles in order to make ends meet.Emeka added that the defaulting drivers believe that they would not be able to fend for their families and repair their cars if it spoils if they don’t overload.
“We have been carrying two passengers at the front passenger’s seat of a Golf car and nothing has happened. I don’t see anything wrong with that,” he said.
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