The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has advised motorists against hoarding fuel as the product poses very serious hazard to life.
Boboye Oyeyemi, Corps Marshal of the FRSC in a statement signed by the Head, Media Relations and Strategy of the corps, Corps Commander Bisi Kazeem, on Wednesday, called on motorists who are in the habit of stockpiling fuel during fuel scarcity to reconsider such habit.
Oyeyemi in the statement said the corps had noticed that this had become a trend among most commercial vehicle drivers during periods of fuel scarcity and urged passengers who noticed such moves by their drivers to question it and reject travelling with the vehicles.
He, however, advised that it was better to bear with the crisis of the moment than to store fuel in vehicles, whether commercial or private.
The FRSC further urged commercial drivers to protect the lives of their passengers by staying off unethical standard of stockpiling fuel in their vehicles.
According to the statement, “Travelling with commercial vehicles that stockpile fuel does not only pose dangers in the event of a crash, but is also not healthy to breath in the petroleum emission that permeates the air in the vehicles they are stored while on transit.
“Aside the fact that the product is flammable, not all passengers are healthy; some are asthmatic and cannot bear breathing gasoline in such airtight conditions,” the statement added.
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