Africa’s richest man, Mr Dangote and his company’s trucks have been on the wrong side of news in Nigeria for a while. His trucks have been causing road accidents which Viewers Corner News team investigated to know why this is always happening. We discovered that majority of Dangote group’s trucks plying Nigerian roads, mere looking at their appearances may not be road worthy with huge loads they carry on daily basis. They are too old based on what we saw. If it were a country where laws and orders work properly, no government would give permit to such trucks to ply on any road in Nigeria. We then ask, why is Dangote group with all the money the company has can not change their trucks? One ugly incident happened recently, a 500 level law student of a university in Nigeria was allegedly killed by Dangote truck. Viewers Corner News team is appealing to Dangote group to replace their trucks with new ones because those trucks plying Nigerian roads which we saw during our working tour in Nigeria look like scraps and should be changed. Viewers Corner News team would also use this opportunity to plead with Dangote group and their divisional heads to ensure that whoever they are going to employ as a truck driver should have all the qualities of a responsible truck driver. Physical and health examinations of such individual should be carried out, alcoholic or hard drug person should not be allowed to drive any truck in the country. With this policy in place, perhaps road accidents in Nigeria would be minimised.
Source: Viewers Corner News.