Quack Drivers To Undergo Driving Theory Test In Osun

The Osun State Government has said it is partnering with some transportation stakeholders to organise a driving theory test to reduce quack and unfit drivers on the highways.

Senior Special Adviser to Governor Ademola Adeleke on Transportation, Salaam Adewale, disclosed this in an interview with journalists during the commencement of the exercise in, Osogbo, on Wednesday.

OSUN DEFENDER learnt that the test is a system that ensures that prospective applicants for driving licences, after training under a certified driving school, are made to undergo tests as well as driving in the presence of Vehicle Inspection Officers before being allowed to be captured for the licence.

Adewale said that the reason for the partnership with other transport stakeholders, especially on the test, was to have drivers who were fit and qualified to drive on Osun roads.

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He said that the partnership would go a long way in ridding the state roads of quacks and unfit drivers, endangering the lives of passengers.

In their separate remarks, the Director, Vehicle Inspection Services, Waheed Lawal, and the Coordinator, Special Marshals, Gbenga Aluko, said other states in the South-West had keyed into the initiative to reduce the high rate of quack drivers and accidents.

They said that such collaboration would be of greater benefit, not just for driving schools and heads of driving licence centres, but to drivers and passengers on the highways, to help reduce accidents.