Crime
Driver Remanded In Prison For Assaulting FRSC Personnel
A commercial driver has been sentenced to one month imprisonment for contempt of court and assault during a mobile court session in Gwagwalada, Abuja.
Mr Emmanuel Amodu-Godwin was apprehended on Friday 11th April 2025 on the order of Magistrate Muhammadu Munir Sani for committing various traffic offences including overloading, passenger manifest violation and assaulting the Marshal on duty.
On resumed hearing at the Magistrate Court 2 Gwagwalada, the commercial driver pleaded guilty
and promised not to exhibit any unruly act and threat on any staff of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC.
Magistrate Muhammadu Munir Sani sentenced him to one month imprisonment with an option of fine of one hundred and fifty thousand naira.
In another development, a Chief Magistrate, Maryam Alhaji has ordered one Muazu Iliyasu, a tricycle operator in Nyanya, Abuja, to be remanded at the Keffi Custodial Center till Friday April 25, 2025.
Iliyasu was arrested on Wednesday for overloading and violence as well as using scissors to cause an injury on an FRSC personnel.
The offender is expected to spend the next 10 days in Keffi correctional facility pending the time when his case will come up on April 25 2025.
Speaking with newsmen in Abuja, the FCT Sector commander of FRSC Muta’a Chorrie said the command would not relent in checking the excesses of motorists and bring sanity on roads in the six area councils of the territory.
He also expressed dissatisfaction with the attitude of some commercial drivers who assault officers and men of FRSC while carrying out their official assignment.
He reiterated the commitment of FRSC management in protecting its personnel and ensuring justice whenever the rights of officers were trampled upon.
The FCT Sector commander reassured that the FRSC would continue to hold town hall meetings with stakeholders in the transport sector for effective traffic control in the territory.
He appealed to road users to give maximum cooperation to the traffic management agency to make the roads safer for socio-economic activities in the nation’s capital to thrive.