The Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC has said that Peace Mass Transit Company was involved in 10 road accidents claiming 22 lives in the last 6 months.
FRSC's Head of Media and Strategy, Mr Bisi Kazeem said that the organization has been interfacing with the transport company to arrest the ugly trend.
He added that FRSC had not blacklisted Peace Mass Transit, contrary to speculations.
"The essence of this clarification is just to make Nigerians know that contrary to the way it was reported, FRSC never indicted PMT and FRSC never blacklisted PMT.
"It is a routine interface when we noticed upsurge in road traffic accidents involving PMT and which is not limited to them.
"We came out with a statistics to show that about 22 people were killed (in accident involving PMT) in recent time.
"But unfortunately, when we sent the press release out, there was an error where 37 were mentioned. It is actually 22.
"As a responsible and responsive organisation, we felt, we should correct the mistake because we are not here to spoil business for anybody. Our own concern is safety and the way forward.
"Once we - FRSC observe a trend, may be a particular fleet operator is getting more involved in crashes than expected where more lives are being lost such organisation is invited.''
Recall that the FRSC and PMT met on July 13 following increasing involvement of vehicles in the fleet of the company in road accidents.
They thereafter, agreed for the continuous inspection of PMT's vehicles by the FRSC to ensure compliance with traffic safety rules.
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