Osun Govt adopts DTT to curb unlicensed drivers

The Osun Government has said it is partnering with stakeholders successful the transport assemblage connected Driving Theory Test, DTT, to trim the fig of unlicensed and unfit drivers connected highways.

Salaam Adewale, Governor Ademola Adeleke’s Senior Special Adviser connected Transportation, disclosed this successful an interrogation with journalists during the inauguration of DTT successful Osogbo connected Wednesday.

Adewale said the crushed for the concern with different transport stakeholders connected DTT is to person drivers that are acceptable and qualified to thrust connected Osun roads.

He explained that the concern would spell a agelong mode successful sanitising the authorities roads of quack and unfit drivers who endangered the lives of passengers.

“The Driver’s Theory Test is 1 of the halfway mandates our Gov. Adeleke gave to the Ministry of Transportation connected presumption of office.

“Gone are the days wherever you tin beryllium successful your location and get a driver’s licence, not minding if you tin thrust a conveyance oregon not,” Adewale said

He revealed that the Ademola Adeleke medication is moving hard towards ensuring zero tolerance to accidents successful the state.

Earlier, the Osun Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Inyang Umoh, stated that DTT volition sanitise the authorities roads from unqualified drivers.

Umoh urged drivers to adhere to the DTT initiative, which volition assistance support their lives and passengers safe.

“The DTT is already operating successful immoderate states, particularly successful the South West. It is simply a bully inaugural and volition assistance to checkmate drivers connected highways,” helium said.

In their abstracted remarks, Waheed Lawal, Director of Vehicle Inspection Services, and the State Coordinator of Special Marshals successful Osun, Gbenga Aluko, said each different states successful the southwest person keyed into the inaugural to trim the precocious level of quack drivers and accidents.

They explained that specified collaboration would beryllium of greater payment not conscionable to driving schools and heads of driver’s licence centres but to drivers and passengers connected highways to assistance trim accidents.

The taxable of the inaugural lawsuit is “Ensuring Due Process successful Driver’s Licence Processing.”

DTT is simply a strategy that ensures that prospective applicants for driver’s licences, aft grooming nether a certified driving school, acquisition tests, including driving successful the beingness of Vehicle Inspection Officers, earlier being allowed to beryllium captured for a licence.