‘Corps Marshal, Dauda Biu Has Run Out Of Ideas, Deserves Sack’

<h4>Corps Marshal&comma; Dauda Biu Has no idea<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>OpenLife Nigeria reports that the Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission&comma; FRSC&comma; Dauda Biu&comma; has been described as an officer who has run out of ideas on how to manage the Commission and should be sacked by President Muhammadu Buhari without further delay&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The call came against the backdrop of Biu&&num;8217&semi;s statement on Friday in which he advised travellers to discontinue the patronage of 18-seater bus&period; for long distance travels&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Corps Marshal who gave the advice at a news conference in Abuja&comma; said most traffic accidents recorded in the country involved 18-seater buses&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to him&comma; the 18-seater buses were designed for short distance travels&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;A lot of crashes we have recorded involved 18-seater buses and the crashes also occurred at night&period; This is devastating and worrisome&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;To this end&comma; great emphasis must be made to discourage the use of 18 seater buses registered under intra state mass transit&comma; for inter-state long journeys&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he stated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Reacting&comma; National Union of Road Transport Workers&comma; NURTW chairman in one of the parks in Ibadan who spoke to OpenLife Saturday morning in Ibadan&comma; requesting not to be named described Biu&&num;8217&semi;s statement as &&num;8220&semi;Nonsense&comma;&&num;8221&semi; saying the Corps Marshal should be sent back to school to learn what is required of his job&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;I have heard the story&period; That man has run out of ideas&period; He should be sent back to school to learn what Road Safety job is all about&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;18-seater buses have been in use in Nigeria and have contributed significantly to the movement of passengers for decades&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;We have been using 18-seater buses before he joined FRSC and he just woke from the wrong side of his bed to tell passengers not to patronize us&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;Is it only 28-seater buses that cause accident on our highway&quest; What of trailers and other brands&quest; Buhari should sack him&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he demanded<&sol;p>&NewLine;