FCTFRSC ARRESTS OVER SIX HUNDRED OFFENDERS IN FIVE DAYS

A special intervention Mobile Court sitting along the Abuja–Nyanya corridor has convicted 281 offenders for 605 traffic offences in the past week.

Speaking during the ongoing Operation Restore Sanity II in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory FCT Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps FRSC, Mr. Felix Theman, said the exercise was part of efforts to curb the rate of traffic indiscipline among road users, including the increasing culture of route violations, overloading, and other contraventions inimical to effective traffic management in the territory.

Mr. Theman explained that the Sector Command collaborated with the Nigerian Army Brigade of Guards, which deployed two teams, as well as officers from the Nigerian Correctional Service, to ensure full compliance with the Mobile Court’s judgments.

He further stated that the special operation focused on route violations and overloading, adding that offences such as driving without a driver’s licence recorded the highest number of violators during the exercise.

The Sector Commander noted that the Mobile Court session, presided over by Maryam Muazu-Alhaji, also sentenced six offenders for various offences, and handed them over to the Nigerian Correctional Service to serve between two and six days of community service at the Nyanya Unit Command and the military base at Mambilla Barracks.

Mr. Theman added that another three offenders, Sunday Idoko, Yakubu Haruna, and Wanje Mathias were referred to the non-custodial unit of the Nigerian Correctional Service to undergo three to six hours of counselling, aimed at educating them on the gravity of their offences.