FRSC asks Saraki, ex-lawmakers to return number plates – TheNigerialawyer

The Federal Road Safety Corps has asked former Senate President,
Bukola Saraki, and about 219 lawmakers who failed to return to the
Senate and House of Representatives to return their official
vehicle number plates.

According to PUNCH report on Thursday that the corps had
requested the Clerk of the National Assembly, Mohammed
Sani-Omolori, to retrieve the vehicle identification plates from
about 69 senators and 151 members of the House of Representatives
who failed to return to the 9th National Assembly.

The FRSC Public Education Officer, Corps Commander Bisi Kareem,
confirmed this to our correspondent in Abuja.

Speaking in response to inquiries by our correspondent, he said,
“We have written to the clerk of the National Assembly to direct
former lawmakers to return official number plates issued to them.
We expect the clerk to reach out to them; we cannot get across to
them ourselves, that was why we wrote to the National Assembly
about it.”

Forty-two of the senators lost out in October last year at their
parties’ primaries while others were defeated at the National
Assembly elections.

Apart from Saraki (Peoples Democratic Party, Kwara Central),
others expected to return their official vehicle number plates are
Godswill Akpabio (All Progressives Congress, Akwa Ibom West); Nazif
Gamawa (PDP, Bauchi); Rafiu Ibrahim (PDP, Kwara South); Tayo
Alasoadura (APC, Ondo Central) and Yele Omogunwa (Ondo South),
among others.

Asked about the deadline for the return of the plates and
sanctions for failure, Kazeem said he would not speak on that.

Findings have, however, shown that many former lawmakers and
ex-officials were still using the official number plates.

The immediate past senator who represented Oyo South Senatorial
District in the Eight Senate, Adesoji Akanbi, said the senators who
were not returning to the National Assembly, were expected to
return the number plates.

He said, “The number plates have expiry date, hence there is no
basis for holding on to it after June 2019 because those who issued
it said it’s between 2015 and 2019.

“Although some may just remove it and throw it away but for
record purposes, it is better to return it to the National Assembly
management which distributed them to us.”

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