FRSC warns against issuing drivers’ licences without eye tests

The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, successful Abia State, Ngozi Ezeoma, has said drivers should not beryllium issued oregon person their licences renewed without archetypal establishing that their imaginativeness is capable for harmless driving.

Ezeoma made the telephone successful Umuahia connected Thursday during the World Sight Day lawsuit organised by the Abia State Eye Health Management Bureau.

Describing oculus diseases and impaired imaginativeness arsenic large factors contributing to roadworthy crashes successful Abia State, Ezeoma expressed interest that drivers who neglect their oculus wellness endanger their lives and those of their passengers.

She urged licensing unit not to compromise nonrecreational standards but to guarantee that drivers with impaired imaginativeness get corrective lenses oregon person further aesculapian attraction earlier their licences are renewed.

“I privation to entreaty to each applicable agencies and licensing unit progressive successful this process to uphold the integrity of this assessment,” the FRSC commandant said.

Ezeoma commended the Abia State Government for establishing an oculus screening centre astatine the Umuahia Central Bus Terminal, saying the inaugural would assistance prevention the lives of roadworthy users. She besides warned drivers against intoxicant maltreatment and the usage of illicit drugs.

Earlier, the Administrator of the Abia State Eye Health Managem...