Car owners who approach the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, for registration without genuine clearance documents from the Nigerian Customs Service would henceforth have such new cars impounded.
President Goodluck Jonathan handed down the directive to the FRSC during the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday attended by the Corps-Marshal, Osita Chidoka, who briefed council members on the country’s status on the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety (2011-2020).
Chidoka said the directive from the President would eliminate fraudulent Customs papers often bandied about by motorists seeking to register their vehicles in the country.
“Initially our plan was when we see you we ask you to go back to Customs. But with the feedback from Mr. President today, that is not enough. We need to hold that car, investigate how it entered into the country without going through the normal process. So we will modify the process to include the Customs in that process,” he said.
He said his organisation would continue to work hard to make Nigerian roads among the 20 safest roads in the world by 2020 in terms of accidents.
He said under his leadership, the Corps’ personnel had increased from 11,000 to 19,000; patrol vehicles from 170 to over 800; and ambulances from 10 to 52; as well as more call centres and increased funding of the FRSC.
Chidoka also assured Nigerians that the delay being witnessed in getting the new driver’s licence would soon become a thing of the past.
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