The Federal Road Safety Corp (FRSC) has announced that it arrested no fewer than 13,000 illegal motorcycle riders and impounded about 20,000 motorcycles across the country in the month of August which just ended.
While speaking to reporters in an interview yesterday in Abuja on the preparation for accident free operations in the ember months, acting FRSC Corp Marshall, Mr Dauda Biu, noted that it has also uploaded over 100,000 into the national vehicle identification database.
According to Mr Biu, the corps has concluded plans to conduct safety awareness campaign in public places such as the motor parks on the need to avoid overloading and over speeding during the ember months.
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‘Part of the efforts we have put in place towards achieving a robust data collection is the ongoing special enforcement operations on unregistered motorcycles which commence at the beginning of August,” Mr Biu said.
‘The clampdown, which is a timely response to the directive issued by the Presidency through the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, will no doubt boost national information and enhance intelligence gathering and criminal information amid the ongoing fight against insecurity in the country.’
In another report, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has finally confirmed the banning of the use of swap number plates while condemning the new trend which is taking place in Nigeria.
FRSC Assistant Corps Marshal, Bisi Kazeem had made this announcement in a statement which he had released on Wednesday where he reiterated that the use of rotational number plates is considered a criminal act as it is illegal.
Kazeem had also stated that the ban had come up after the commission was drawn to a video which was circulating on social media which displayed a vehicle with double number plates.