Besides having their buses being shunned by commuters, the owner of Peace Mass Transit, Mr. Maduka Samuel Onyishi, now has another major headache and heartache to contend with.
The Federal Road Safety Corps, headed by Mr. Boboye Oyeyemi, on Wednesday, July 13, 2016, waded into the matter. And this, according to FRSC, was because in the last 6 months, that’s between January and June alone, Peace Mass Transit buses were involved in 11 accidents, which claimed 37 lives and left 58 people badly injured!
The Federal Road Safety Corps on Wednesday, July 13, 2016, therefore
summoned
managers of Peace Mass Transit, founded in 1999,
over the spate of road accidents involving the transport company.
Describing the occurrence as worrisome and unacceptable, Oyeyemi ordered the company’s activities to be thoroughly looked into. Not only that, all Peace Mass Transit drivers as well as their vehicles will henceforth go for recertification and safety audit before hitting the road.
Again, speed limiters will be installed on all of them to curtail their overspeeding and recklessness – which many continued to attribute to the calamity that has befallen the company.
The troubled transport company, YES INTERNATIONAL! Magazine learnt, equally suffered a similar fate last year. As between January and December 2015, their vehicles also recorded eight crashes, during which six people lost their lives and 55 others were injured.