Zamfara FRSC meets stakeholders to tackle overloading
By IbrahimG Ahmad
The Zamfara Sector Comman of Federal Roads Safety Corps (FRSC) has organized a day stakeholders engagement to device means of tackling overloading among roads users.
Speaking at the event in Gusau on Tuesday the Sector Commander Aliyu Maaji said the of habit of overloading remain the critical challenge of concern to road users nationwide.
Maaji recalled an incident of Golf main for six person conveyed 23 passingers and in the event of accident killed 9 persons the said crash happened in Jigawa.
He urged stakeholders to joint command on special patrol to sensitized drivers and other road users on the danger of the menace.
Also called on state government to enact traffic laws that would decisively dealt with violators.
The Secretary Zamfara Chapter of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Mr. Rabiu Adamu appeal for the involvement of it's members into special Marshalls to assist in curtailing the menace of overloading.
Adamu said the involvement of Union's members into roads Marshalls and regularly on the roads with officers and men of the corps would change the attitude of drivers n traffic laws.
He said overloading were usually done outside the motorpacks, we are not disputing our members partaking in the offence but with active participation of the Union in patrol will to checkout the badeggs.
Also speaking with State Chairman of the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuffs and Catlles Dealars of Nigeria (AUFCON), Aminu Garba said the chapter was ready to joint FRSC on anything capable of curtailing roads crash.
We can not do with out transport so the of our roads is our concern, and both the overloading and mixed loading are done after leaving the loading points or motor packs.
So joint patrol was the only remidy to tackle the menace anywhere.
The meeting was attended by the NURTW, National Association of Roads Transport Owners (NATO), Amalgamated Union of Foodstuffs and Catlles Dealers of Nigeria, and Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Gas (NUPENG)

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