FRSC-Boss-Boboye-Oyeyemi
FRSC to Clampdown
FRSC-Boss-Boboye-Oyeyemi
FRSC to Clampdown on Motorcycles, Tricycles without
Number Plates
The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi
has directed a nationwide clampdown on motorcycles and tricycles
without number plates with effect from August 1st 2019, as it has
become difficult to identify such category of vehicles when used to
commit traffic and criminal offences.
In a statement issued by Bisi Kazeem, the Corps Public Education
Officer, this development has become imperative following the
Corps’ renewed commitment to ensuring security of lives and
properties of the citizens, by controlling and reducing the rate of
crime. Motorcycles and tricycles without number plate are believed
not to be captured in the National Vehicle database hence, in the
event of a crash or crime, cannot be traced.
Buttressing this further, Kazeem quoted a part of the FRSC
Establishment Act that empowers the Corps to achieve the
aforementioned. According to him, “The National Road Traffic
Regulations (NRTR) 2012 was made pursuant to section 5(e) of the
FRSC (Establishment) Act, 2007 and specifies the type of
Identification Number Plates for all categories of vehicles
including motorcycles, tricycles and omnibus. Regulations 8 (1a and
1b) also states that “a vehicle may be registered in anyone of the
following categories – motorcycles or tricycles.”
Furthermore, “Regulations 39(9) of the NRTR 2012 provides that
“All private and commercial vehicles shall as from the commencement
of these regulations have on them Vehicle Identification Number
Plates referred to in this regulation, and it shall be an offence
for any vehicle not to have the said Identification Number Plates.”
Vehicles in this context include motorcycles and tricycles.
According to Public Education Officer, Commanding officers
nationwide have been mandated to engage the relevant stakeholders
and associations to intimate them on the proposed clampdown. Public
Education Officers have equally been directed to carry out all
forms of advocacies to sensitize the riders on the need to register
their motorcycles and tricycles. The general public has also been
advised to desist from patronizing motorcycles and tricycles
without number plates as they stand the risk of been abandoned in
times of crash or crime.
It will be recalled that the National Vehicle Identification
Scheme has immensely aided the recovery of stolen vehicles and
track down perpetrators of such act. The clampdown, in
collaboration with other security agencies will help in the
reduction of crimes to further bring down the rate of
insecurity.
Bisi Kazeem
Corps Public Education Officer