Federal Road Safety Corps,FRSC, wants to ban commercial motorcycles popularly known as `Okada’.
It is understood that the reason is to reduce accidents on our roads.
This recommendation by the agency forms part of the October Road Traffic Crash (RTC) Report 2016, that was submitted by the Corps Marshal, Mr Boboye Oyeyemi, to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF).
The RTC statistics for October 2016, reveals 230 cases or 18% of a total of 1,259 vehicles were involved in accidents within the month, majority were commercial motorcycles.
The report revealed motorcycle accidents were ranked third after cars which accounted for 457 cases or 36%, followed by minibuses with 243 or 19% of the total.
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