The Federal Highway Security Corps has arrested a complete of 614,051 site visitors offenders nationwide in 2023, Saturday PUNCH collected.
The figures are in a doc made accessible to our correspondent on Friday.
Based on the doc, Lagos State topped the record with 61,882 site visitors offenders arrested. The Federal Capital Territory and Kano observe this with 43,682 and 38,154 site visitors offenders arrested respectively.
An additional breakdown within the doc confirmed that Ogun recorded 37,948 arrested site visitors offenders; Kaduna 31,472; This, 31,447; Kwara, 28,277; Precipitation, 22,565; Kogi, 22,377; Ondo, 17,798; Niger, 17,726; Delta, 16,741; Edo, 15,727; Rivers, 14,925; Benue, 14,030; Katsina, 14,023; Seat, 13,824; Monitor, 13,734; Plateau, 13,520; and Borno, 12.4
Others are Nasarawa, 12,414; Jigawa, 12,052; Cross River, 11,524; Bauchi, 10,027; Sokoto; 9,754; Zamfara, 9,608; Akwa-Ibom, 9,458; Adamawa, 8,873; Enugu, 7,217; Ebony, 6,550; Anambra, 6,746; imo, 5,459; Taraba, 5,163; Gombe, 5,130; Kebbi, 3,952; Abijah, 3,097; and Bayelsa, 2,683.
The doc additional revealed that the site visitors offenders have been arrested for 668,084 site visitors violations starting from dashing, seat belt violation, utilizing telephones whereas driving, overloading and harmful driving.
The 2023 knowledge additionally confirmed that there have been 614,051 site visitors offenders, up from 661,231 in 2022, representing a lower of seven.1 %.
The Chief Govt Officer, Skilled Driving and Security Academy, Jide Owatunmise, who spoke just lately Saturday PUNCH famous that there was a necessity for the FRSC to deploy extra applied sciences, together with the set up of CCTV cameras “on the blind spots to seize site visitors violators.”