While the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) continues to persuade motorists to maintain speed limit and at worse handed minimal fine, the situation overseas is different.
Heavy fine awaits whosoever caught speeding above the limit.
Last week, a motorist, Reima Kuisla was fined $60,000for going 103km/h in an 80km/h zone in Finland.
Nigerian motorists nonchalantly cruising above the speed limit with many get away with it.
Kuisla was on his way to the airport when he got caught going 103 km/h (64 mph) in an 80km/h (50 mph) zone, setting him back 60,000 US dollars.
Unlike Nigeria and some other nations, where the flat fine is based on location and speed over the limit, Finland bases the penalty also as a percentage of daily income, according to the previous year’s tax return.
Since Kuisla earned over 7 million US dollars in 2013, he had a penalty equivalent to a brand-new BMW M3. The rationale is that the fine should sting for anyone, whether they are scraping by or living in the lap of luxury.
Unsurprisingly, Kuisla isn’t a fan of progressive penalties, saying: “10 years ago, I wouldn’t have believed that I would seriously consider moving abroad. Finland is impossible to live in for certain kinds of people who have high incomes and wealth.”
He wasn’t the only one to pay a hefty sum in Finland — a Nokia executive had pay over 103, 000 US dollars back in 2002 for speeding on a Harley.
