By Sadiq Abubakar
Maiduguri
Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, yesterday in Abuja proposed community service as a penalty for traffic offenders in the country.
Fashola made the proposal at the House of Representatives’ public hearing on a Bill to Amend the Federal Road Safety Commission Act 2004.
The minister decried the behaviour of some road users, who violate road traffic rules, thereby endangering the safety of other road users.
He urged the legislature to be more innovative in the penalties to be enacted into law in order to effectively reduce accidents on the roads.
“The penalties proposed in the bill seem to focus on custodian and peculiar to the extent that they have existed for quite a while without seeing an appreciable reduction in the incidents.
“Perhaps, parliament can be a little more daring and a little more innovative in some of the kinds of penalties it wants to consider,’’ he added. (NAN)