Following the loss of lives of about 5000
Nigerians in road crashes resulting from tyre
bursts since 2010 till date, the Federal Road
Safety Corps has resolved to intensify its
sensitization and education Programmes to
ban the use of food-based and substandard
sealing pastes mostly used by Vulcanizers to
fix tyres across the country.
In a statement, the Head Media Relations and
Strategy of the Corps, Bisi Kazeem, stated
that Corps Marshal Boboye Oyeyemi’s interest
to intensify the sensitization and enforcement
campaign in the above-stated areas is further
reinforced by the House of Representatives’
Resolution (HR.65/2016) to curb the influx of
substandard tyres, non-lubricant rims and fake
tyre sealing pastes, as well as the use of food-
based products on tyres by vulcanizers
According to him, the Corps Marshal has
stressed that Vulcanizers are culpable for the
ways and manners they improperly handle
tyres during repairs, and added that the
dangerous practice of engaging fake sealing
pastes is capable of causing rusts on new
rims, as well as wears on new and standard
tyres.
He has in the past met with Vulcanizers’
Association to intimate them of their
inappropriate and dangerous conducts
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