{"id":76080,"date":"2025-10-05T00:37:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T00:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76080"},"modified":"2025-10-05T00:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T00:37:21","slug":"frsc-arrests-250-commercial-drivers-in-abuja-for-overloading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/05\/frsc-arrests-250-commercial-drivers-in-abuja-for-overloading\/","title":{"rendered":"FRSC Arrests 250 Commercial Drivers in Abuja for Overloading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has arrested over 250 commercial vehicle drivers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), within two days for violating its directive restricting taxis to only one passenger in the front seat.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests followed the launch of a new enforcement campaign on October 2, aimed at curbing overloading and ensuring strict compliance with vehicle safety regulations across the FCT.<\/p>\n<p>FCT Sector Commander, Corps Commander Felix Theman, said the operation seeks to promote passenger safety and uphold human dignity by enforcing adherence to traffic laws.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that overloading impairs vehicle control, hinders seatbelt use, and significantly increases the risk of road crashes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe essence of this operation is to safeguard lives. Overloading not only endangers passengers but also puts other road users at risk,\u201d Theman stated.<\/p>\n<p>He further disclosed that the clampdown would be intensified from Monday, October 6, with mobile magistrate courts deployed across the territory to prosecute offenders swiftly.<\/p>\n<p>In a related development, FRSC data shows that more than 620,000 traffic violators were apprehended nationwide between January 2024 and July 2025, underscoring the Corps\u2019 renewed focus on road safety enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has arrested over 250 commercial vehicle drivers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), within two days for violating its directive restricting taxis to only one passenger in the front seat. The arrests followed the launch of a new enforcement campaign on October 2, aimed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":76081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76082,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76080\/revisions\/76082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}