The dictator Daniel Ortega, during the delivery of the last batch of 400 Chinese buses, acquired with the Yutong company, issued a new threat against drivers who violate the Law for the Vehicular Circulation Regime and Traffic Violations, Law 431.
«With the Police we are going to work on a Plan, where, that the motorists are not bothered, that those who are speeding are not bothered, when the Police stop them and they are punished, taking away their license, prohibiting them for a certain period of time from using the vehicle. transportation, but transportation would be protected, whether it be a motorcycle or any vehicle,” said Ortega.
The last time that dictator Ortega threatened drivers with more coercive measures for violating Law 431, the National Police, through the General Directorate of National Traffic, initiated measures that included the detention of people who were found in the car for 24 hours. steering wheel without driver’s licenses.
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The threat from the Sandinista regime also occurred in front of representatives of the Union of Transporters of Nicaragua (URECOOTRACO), who participated in the bus delivery ceremony along with members of different cooperatives, whom he urged to “not dispute over passengers.”
Regime recognizes high rate of deaths on the roads
«Brothers, with more buses, and I would tell you to make every effort, the maximum effort, not to go around fighting for passengers and running at high speed; We are having and have had many deaths due to traffic accidents. We are not going to say that you have been, but that we do have many deaths from traffic accidents,” said Ortega.
In addition, he highlighted that there are other traffic accidents related to vehicle damage, which is why he indicated that “more attention” must be paid to this.
«We also give the message to our fellow transporters who are not in our programs, to be more careful, that it is their lives and the lives of the passengers that are in their hands. We have many traffic accidents, it is terrible to see the pain of the relatives they see lying there in the street, dead, injured, serious,” said the Sandinista dictator.
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Until December 8, the National Transit Directorate counted that 882 people died in traffic accidents and another 2,614 were injured.
This year, the Police have also implemented coercive measures that have resulted in 38,489 suspended licenses and 5,607 people arrested for driving while intoxicated. Since last October 21, National Transit has also carried out the arrest of people who are detected behind the wheel without a driver’s license, adding from that date until December 8 a total of 2,019 people detained from 24 to 72 hours.
