Nigeria: Away With Defective Vehicles

editorial

At a recent conference on vehicle roadworthiness in Abuja, the participants agreed that Nigerian roads are plagued by motor vehicles that are anything but roadworthy. These defective vehicles cause accidents on equally defective roads.

But the greater danger, according to Federal Road Safety Corps Commission's corps marshal Osita Chidoka, is that there is no sign of improvement even with new technologies and manufacturing systems.

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