Motorists React To FG’s Order To Eliminate Speed Breakers

Motorists as well as residents of some communities have been reacting to the ‘no speed breakers’ directive by the Federal Government.This is sequel to the directive by Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, ‎that all speed breakers on federal highways beremoved.Those agitating for the speed breakers to remain have insisted that they are necessary, in order to control the speedof motorists on the highways.They believe that several lives have been lost to road accidents as a result of over-speeding by motorists, especially as some motorists indulge indrunk driving.Some citizens are, however, in support of the government’s order for the removal of the speed breakers.Motorists especially have complained that the speed breakers damage their vehicles, insisting that they are of no advantage on the highways.Federal Controller of Works in Ondo State, Hezekiah Kehinde, in an interviewwith Channels Television, opined that ‎speed breakers are not part of road design.According to him, “they are illegal and they even cause accidents”.Channels TV also spoke with two transporters, Adewale Ojo and Kayode Agbeyanju, who were also of the view that the speed breakers should be removed from the highways.Meanwhile, an Assistant Corps‎ Marshall in the Federal Road Safety Commission, (FRSC), Wole Olaniran, has suggested that it is rather “preferable forspeed limit devices to be installed in vehicles, in order to limit the speed of motorists”.