The FRSC Corps Marshal ,Mr Boboye Oyeyemi, made this known at the Stakeholders’ Forum on Tyres with the theme `‘Promoting Safe Tyre use in Nigeria’’.
The forum was organised by the FRSC in Abuja. Oyeyemi said that all the crashes the commission had recorded from February 2016 till date had been tyre-related.
He said that this could be attributed to the ignorance in the use and management of tyres by most drivers.
He said that the support of the government and the private sector was needed in order for Nigeria to go back to having tyre plants. He said that the control of tyres coming into the country was made difficult as there were no longer tyre manufacturing companies in the country.
Oyeyemi said that there was, therefore, the need to encourage local production of tyres.
He appealed to the Manufacturing Association of Nigeria (MAN) and the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), to explore how tyre manufacturing plants could be brought back to life.
He said that the FRSC had been raising alarm on fake tyres since the Dunlop and Michelin tyre plants were shut down in Nigeria.
This, he said, had led to people patronising bad tyres which in turn increased the rate of road crashes.
He said this was because of ignorance of drivers and non compliance with instructions on tyre.
Oyeyemi said many of the local vulcanizers use improperly calibrated measuring tools while some lack knowledge on the accurate gauge of each tyre.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/frsc-impound-vehicles-expired-substandard-tyres/
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