The Federal Road Safety Corps has said that motorists caught breaking traffic laws would be the one to defray cost of psychiatrist test.
This was conveyed in a statement FRSC Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, released about the five-day training programme for 22 FRSC officials on traffic safety for non-motorised transportation in Abuja on Monday.
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The statement said at the training Corps Marshal Dr Boboye Oyeyemi said the agency would commence enforcement of psychiatric tests on traffic law offenders in the country with effect from July 1, 2017.
It reads in part, ““We are worried about the continuous use of phone while driving, traffic light violations, route violations and dangerous driving.
“We have invited the commanding officers for a strategic session on Friday. We will give them full directives to resume the referral of all these classes of offenders to various government hospitals for check of their mental state.
“I think it is an act of irresponsibility for somebody to be driving and be using phone or for a traffic light to stop you and you are jumping the line.
“It means something is wrong with your mental faculty. So, there is need to examine this, to really check whether you are fit to drive, whether you have the mental capability.
“The offender will bear the cost. When they confirm that he is fit, then he will go for retraining programme and pay the fine.”
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