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“The issue of the operational jurisdictions of the FRSC has been settled by the Court of Appeal in the case of FRSC v. Barr Oko Omono Obla (2010) 15 NWLR (Pt. 1217) 635,” plaintiff’s counsel declared. While delivering judgment, the court held that, “it should be noted that the case of plaintiff on the issue is that the exercise of power to stop vehicle as well as impose fine and penalty as appropriated must be limited to areas designated by the law establishing the Commission.  “It is restricted to the Federal Highways and that is the intention of the legislature as expressed in the FRSC establishments Act 2007. “Consequently, the plaintiff agrees that the power of Federal Road Safety Commission to Stop vehicles and impose fine and penalty and enforce payment of same are not in doubt, provided such powers are exercised within areas or locations permitted by law.

  The Father of Akinyele rape victim, the 18-year-old Mary Daramola, who was raped to death at Alabama the community in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State last week Tuesday, have developed mental problems. A source who spoke anonymously said the father would not be able to comment on the development as he had been speaking incoherently since he carried the lifeless body of his daughter to the mortuary after the incident “In fact, he collapsed about three times on the day of the incident. It was after that that he began speaking incoherently,” she said. The source said the family’s of the case is so pathetic as the mother of the deceased had been battling mental the problem for several years and it was her daughter who had been taking care of her before she was raped and killed. A youth leader in the community, Rasaq Ahmed, also said that it was not the first time the prime suspect, Toheeb Ganiyu, had been involved in rape. Ahmed alleged that just last year, Toheeb spent th...