FRSC Reveals Fresh Method Of Enforcing New Number Plates

Federal Road Safety Commission has reversed its decision to enforce a
new number plate for every car in the country.

The Corps Marshall of the Federal Road Safety Commission, Mr. Boboye
Oyeyemi, made this announcement during an interview with journalists
when he paid a courtesy visit to Governor Theodore Orji at the
Government House in Umuahia.

He said that the agency will no longer insist on any deadline for the
enforcement of the new number plate.

He added that the agency would abide by the court ruling which
restrained it from enforcing the proposal.

He explained that motorists who still had the old number plate would
rather get the new ones when they go to renew their vehicle licences.

"We will abide by the court ruling. It was a case of double taxation
to be compelled to have the new one if your licence has not expired.
It is a phase approach. If your driving licence expires, you go and
renew it. It is a 12-month cycle. There is no deadline again.

"That does not mean that if you carry a fake number plate or driving
licence that you will not be prosecuted."Oyeyemi is quoted as saying
by Punch.

The corps marshal, however, vowed that the agency would not back down
on the June 1, 2015 deadline for the enforcement of the speed limit
device.

He said that by 2016, all imported vehicles in Nigeria must have speed
limit device installed in them.

The policy, according to him, has become necessary because of the
discovery that over 15.8 per cent auto crashes in the country was
speed related.

Oyeyemi, however, noted that Nigeria recorded 25 per cent reduction in
road accidents in 2014 and lesser incidents in January 2015,
expressing the hope that with the new device, auto crashes would
reduce by 80 per cent in 2016.

He called on state governments to set up traffic management agencies
to man state roads so that the FRSC could focus on interstate and
federal roads for more effective results.

It will be recalled that the FRSC announced that they had acquired new
devices which they say will put an end to road accidents in Nigeria.
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