Over 100 Unregistered driving schools in Anambra on the run as FRSC Clamps do on them

www.odogwublog.com reports that the Anambra Sector Commander of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC),  Mr Sunday Ajayi, yesterday, asked over 100 unregistered driving schools

in Anambra state to do the needful or close down business as his command would not tolerate them any further.

Ajayi said that it has concluded plans to clamp-down, arrest and prosecute over 100 persons operating the unregistered and unauthorized driving schools within Anambra. He informed that only 8 driving schools are registered in the state.

Ajayi, who disclosed this in Awka while speaking at the maiden strategic meeting with Driving School Proprietors in Anambra State, noted that it would never again be business as usual for any person or group of persons operating a driving school without the knowledge of the FRSC in the state as well as due certification from the corps.

His words, ``We have discovered that because in our efforts to get the best through this institution; some people have decided to go their own way to rubbish the effort.

``And those people are the people that have not yet come to us to register their driving school, they have not gotten approval, yet they deceive people, continue to train them, make them and produce wrong or fake drivers’ license for them.

``So it becomes very important that we focus on them and flush them out of the system; so definitely we would start very soon, maybe as early as March.

``In Anambra State, we have eight certified driving school now; but it is a continuous process, whoever is interested in establishing the business of driving school should come forward to road safety get registered.

``We go through the process of helping them to establish and them would be certified; because after that they would be allowed to do business,’’ he said.

The commander attributed most of the unruly behaviours and lack of discipline seen on roads to most drivers learning from uncertified and ill-equipped driving schools.

Earlier, the Chairman of Driving School Proprietors in Anambra State, Chief Patrick Obiozor, said that the meeting was necessary so that the association could meaningfully contribute its quota to road accident reduction in Anambra.

Obiozor said, ``The formal verification and certification of over 100 driving schools in Anambra would ensure standard; while it would produce better budding drivers, who would learn to obey traffic rules.

``There is a lot we have to learn and gain as we work under the guidance of the FRSC and become critical stakeholders in making sure road accidents are reduce to the barest minimal in the state’’.

In a goodwill message, the State Motor Registrar, Anambra State Internal Revenue Service, Mr Patrick Chukwuka, said that the synergy between the FRSC and driving school proprietors would help check license racketeering in the state.