The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Bauchi Command has said that they usually impound Keke NAPEP tricycle with kid riders and call the owner of the tricycles to collect them for a fee. According to FRSC Sector Commander, Yusuf Abdullahi: “We enlighten and educate them because it has become a menace. We know that the government’s empowerment programme brought in Keke NAPEP; so you see everybody trying to get something to live on. But our own is to keep them enlightened through the media and even through one-on-one meetings.

“And enforcement is also ongoing to fish out the erring ones among them. We have provision for underage in our enforcement tickets. When we go on air, we also educate people and tell the parents that they are not safe on account of what they allowed their children to go into.

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“We have age limit for driving and the same applies to riding also. So automatically, it is not allowed. If we catch anybody that is below the age, we apprehend, educate and restrict the person. We also impound the Keke and ask the parents or the owner to come and collect it. We do the same thing to the ones we find on the road. So, we are basically educating, enlightening and enforcing the law to make sure that our roads are safe.”