Bizman Hails Planned Psychiatric Test On Traffic Offenders

The planned Psychiatric test for traffic law breakers, has been described as one of the best strategies to check the high level of recklessness by motorists on Nigerian highways.
A Port Harcourt-based business man, Mr Emma Amaechi, stated this yesterday in an interview with The Tide in Port Harcourt.
Amaechi, who is the Managing Director, Ibekalam Nigeria Limited, noted that only psychiatric investigation by medical doctors could ascertain the mental health condition of those who display all manner of recklessness on the roads.
“There are a whole lot of shameful display of madness and I can assure you, so many of the  traffic offenders will fail the test because it takes some level of madness to do the things they do.
Imagine a driver stopping in the middle of the road to load or off-load passengers and goods and while doing this, he expects the rest of us, also legitimately using same road to wait behind until he gets through with his illegality”, he said.
Amaechi, who urged the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), not to spare any person who fails the test, also suggested that irrespective of the status of the offenders, the law should take its course.
“Any uniformed person driving against traffic should not be spared, because the uniform is no guarantee. We must know the mental health of such a driver”, he stated.
According to him, if the programme is properly executed, the high level of illegality resulting in several road accidents and loss of lives would be reduced.
It would be recalled that, authorities of the FRSC announced the commencement of psychiatric test on traffic offenders with effect from July Ist, 2017.

Chris Oluoh