Following an order by Nyesome Wike, the Minister of Works, asking for the removal of Speed Breakers or Road Bumps on the highways, Jide Owatunmise, Registrar/Chief Executive,

Professional Driving and Safety Academy, wrote to Daily Independent to give the following conditions for the order to serve the public good in terms of safety;

He said, research revealed that most of the Bumps were put in those places because of the excessive speed of Drivers, leading to the incessant loss of lives.

Ironically, the speed Bumps have also caused damages to Vehicles and loss of lives due to the ignorance of the the Drivers of the presence of those Bumps.

There must be Traffic Sign to indicate the presence of Speed Bump so that Drivers can safely slow down before getting to the Bump. The Speed Bumps on Obajana – Kabba road has no single Traffic Sign to alert Drivers of the Bumps ahead.

The only sign is the Concrete block placed on the side of each Bump, not a warning before the Bump. The concrete blocks on the Bumps are not painted nor marked to make them visible from afar before getting there.

The Bumps were not marked with paint for easy identification from afar. The absence of these signs and markings have led to many accidents, loss of lives and valuable properties on the Obajana – Kabba road and nothing has been done to correct these lapses.

Towards the Kabba end of the road, the Bump at the slope near a Police checkpoint was wrongly positioned. Bumps must not be located on a slope. This has caused many accidents and loss of lives.

https://independent.ng/conditions-for-installing-removing-road-bumps-owatunmise/