The Federal High Court in Abuja has affirmed the powers of the Federal Road Safety Corps to enforce traffic laws on all public roads in Nigeria and impound violators’ vehicles.
The judgment was delivered in a suit filed by Pius Abu who accused the FRSC and its men of wrongfully impounding his car for using telephone and subsequently impounding his car in Abuja in May 2019.
The plaintiff, who said he was apprehended by the FRSC operatives at ECWA Junction, Wuse II, Abuja and impounded his Peugeot 306 car on May 6, 2019, alleged that FRSC lacked the power to enforce traffic law on the road not stipulated in the FRSC Act. But delivering judgment in the suit on Wednesday, Justice Chikere held that “It is wrong to limit the enforcement of the traffic rules to the roads listed in the Federal Road Safety Corps Act when the Act gives the 2nd defendant to enforce the traffic rules on all public roads in other legislations.”
She also ruled that FRSC is by the Act “empowered to arrest and prosecute anybody found to violate traffic rules on any public road”. She also ruled that by virtue of “Section 35 of the FRSC Act, the 2nd defendant can impound any vehicle found to have committed any offence in the Act”.All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.
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