Late Bar. James Ocholi's driver had no driver licence- FRSC

THE Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), insisted that the driver of the late Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr James Ocholi, had no driver’s licence record with the commission.
 
Head, Media Relations and Strategy, FRSC, Mr Bisi Kazeem, in an interview with Nigerian Tribune in Abuja, debunked the news making the rounds in the social media that Mr Taiwo Elegbede, driver of the ill-fated vehicle that claimed the lives of Ocholi and his family members had a driver’s licence.
 
Kazeem re-echoed earlier explanation by the Corps Marshal and Chief Executive of FRSC, Mr Boboye Oyeyemi, that the driver had no licence, adding that even if the driver had obtained fake driver’s licence from elsewhere “to FRSC, it is no licence.”
 
It will be recalled that Ocholi, his wife and a son died in a ghastly auto crash along Kaduna-Abuja Highway on Sunday, March 6, while the driver and the Orderly sustained serious injuries.
 
But Oyeyemi, while presenting report of the Corps’ investigation into the crash to the Federal Executive Council (FEC), disclosed that the driver was not captured in the commission’s data, an indication that he had no driver’s licence.
 

Kazeem, further noted that Elegbede was not captured in the Corps’ drivers’ licensing data, so the license he claimed to have expired must be a fake one.
 
He said: “Our license procedure includes physical presence and biometric capturing of applicants which is permanently stored in our data bank, for the purpose of verification.
 
“We always tell members of the public to visit our licensing centres spread across the country and desist from patronising touts while applying for their driver’s license.
 
“Elegbede cannot be called a competent driver if he does not have a genuine driver’s license, which he can only acquire showing mastery of basic driving principles.
 
On the claim that the vehicle was not originally that of their ministry, Kazeem said, “A good driver must perform a routine check on his vehicles before driving out; it is not an excuse to say because the vehicle was provided by another office and he should ignored a check on it”.
 
Kazeem, wished the driver speedy recovery while urging members of the public to only engage the service of a genuinely licensed drivers, to avert road carnages

Source: [TribuneNG]