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Traffic offenders to undergo psychiatric tests – Ogun govt

The Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) said traffic offenders, particularly route violators (those driving against traffic), would be fined and undergo psychiatric tests as part of corrective measures against the offence.

TRACE commander and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), ‘Seni Ogunyemi, stated this during a visit to his office at Ibara by the executive members of the Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigeria (MDCAN), Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta chapter.

Ogunyemi urged the medical personnel to support the agency’s road safety programmes.

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“The rate people were dying on our roads before now was alarming to the extent that they called us a ‘mortuary state’. But it is now a ‘life-saving state’, as a result of the government’s intervention and corrective measures being put in place by TRACE to ask road traffic offenders to pay fines and go for psychiatric tests, if need be, to curb their excesses. This is not punishment but ways to correct them and deter them from repeating the same offence,” he said.

Responding, the chairman of the association, Dr Sola Adebisi, commended TRACE officers for their good conduct and efforts on the roads, promising that the association would build on the existing relationship with the agency.

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