FRSC Reads Riot Act On Vehicles Of Parties Carrying Branded Number Plate In Ogun
Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has read a riot act to political parties using branded number plates on their vehicles for the 2023 polls campaign rallies in Ogun state.
The agency warns that such vehicles would henceforth be impounded for violating the national road traffic regulations 2021.
The state FRSC sector commander, Ahmed Umar, in a statement by the agency’s spokesperson, Florence Okpeh said the command has been flooded with reports of such vehicles.
Such illegal branded number plates, according to FRSC commander, pose threat to security, peace and social order in the state.
He said that FRSC is collaborating with other security agencies to go after such vehicles and their owners.
The commander warned motorists in the state, particularly politicians to stop flagrant and unauthorized use of branded number plates.
Umar asks those seeking to use branded number plates on their vehicles to follow the established procedure for the registration of vehicles in line with the presidential executive order on ease of doing business.
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Sometime in August 2022, a statement signed by the Assistant Corps Marshal, Bisi Kazeem revealed that the corps’ attention had been drawn to a video circulating on social media which displayed a vehicle with rotational number plates.
The communique also read “The vehicle number plates on display are KUJ-304BV, while the other side which was automatically flipped carries a number tagged presidency with the following details, 01B-266FG.”
The FRSC Ag. Corps Marshal, Dauda Ali Biu, has ordered a full investigation into the trend as FRSC does not produce a number plate with such double features, insisting that “only one number can be assigned to one vehicle and its owner at the same time.”
“The Ag. Corps Marshal is also using this medium to warn Nigerians from replicating same as it is considered a criminal act which has its place in law,” it also read.
FRSC then placed a public notice on the mainstream media dissuading Nigerians and the Motoring Public regarding vehicles with unauthorised number plates as the users are not duly registered and often have sinister motives.
