The Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) said traffic offenders, particularly route violators (those driving against traffic), would be fined and undergo psychiatric tests as part of corrective measures against the offence. TRACE commander and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), ‘Seni Ogunyemi, stated this during a visit to his office at Ibara by the executive members of the Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigeria (MDCAN), Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta chapter. Ogunyemi urged the medical personnel to support the agency’s road safety programmes. “The rate people were dying on our roads before now was alarming to the extent that they called us a ‘mortuary state’. But it is now a ‘life-saving state’, as a result of the government’s intervention and corrective measures being put in place by TRACE to ask road traffic offenders to pay fines and go for psychiatric tests, if need be, to curb their excesses. This is not punishment but ways to correct them and deter them from repeating the same offence,” he said. Ogunyemi called on the medical personnel to interface and support the agency on its road safety programmes, to enlighten residents in the state. He said, “The rate at which people were dying on our roads before now was alarming, to the extent that they call us a ‘mortuary state’, but it is now ‘life-saving state’, as a result of government’s intervention and corrective measures being put in place by TRACE. ‘”This includes asking road traffic offenders to pay fines and go for psychiatric tests, if need be, to curb their excesses. This is not punishment but ways to correct them and deter them from repeating the same offence”. Responding, Chairman of the association, Dr. Sola Adebisi, commended TRACE officers for their good conduct and efforts on the roads, promising that the association would build on the existing relationship with the agency. Meanwhile, the state chairman of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, Mrs. Seun Boye, has pleaded for the support of TRACE for the successful hosting of 2024 Nigeria Public Relations Week coming up in April.
Traffic Offenders To UndergoPsychiatric Tests – Ogun Govt
