COVID-19: COMPLY WITH MEASURES OR FACE SEVERE CONSEQUENCES….CRSG Tasks Commercial Drivers

"All commercial vehicles and drivers who have not yet purchase their hand sanitizer, are required to go to the Agency office in Calabar to purchase their hand sanitizers”.....CRSG

“In the same vein, all keke operators are now required to carry only one passenger at a time and all the commercial drivers must not carry more than two passengers at a time”.

With the outbreak of the global pandemic in several states of Nigeria, the Cross River state Government has issued a stern warning to commercial vehicle drivers in the state to comply with directives or face severe consequences.

This directives became necessary following the purchase of sanitizers by the state government, under the leadership of His Excellency, Senator Ben Ayade.

According to a statement from the office of the Director General of the AyadeCare Health Agency in Calabar, personnel from of agency have been station at the Traffic Management and Regulatory Agency for the purchase of hand sanitizers by commercial drivers and members of the public.

The Director General of the Agency, Comrade Godwin Nyiam, revealed that the Agency staff would embark on serious enforcement from Wednesday, March 24, 2020 as part of strict policy to ensure compliance.

Comrade Nyiam disclosed that, “to this end, all commercial vehicles and drivers who have not yet purchase their hand sanitizer, are required to go to the Agency office in Calabar to purchase their hand sanitizers”.

“In the same vein, all keke operators are now required to carry only one passenger at a time and all the commercial drivers must not carry more than two passengers at a time”, he warned.

The DG of the Traffic Regulatory Agency warned that, “failure to comply with the new directive, which is put in place to checkmate the spread of the current global dreaded scourge called Coronavirus, code named, COVID-19, will attract severe consequences leading to the impoundment of the driver's vehicle”.

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