FRSC begins clampdown on vehicles with concealed number plates

<p>Jatau said that the union had a robust working relationship with the former commanding officers and sector commanders of the corps, and pledged to sustain that.</p>, <span>FRSC begins clampdown on vehicles with concealed number plates.</span>, <h2>The Federal Road safety Corps (FRSC) says that due to the current security challenges, the corps has commenced a clampdown on vehicles plying the country’s highways with concealed registration numbers.</h2>, <p>Assistant Corps Marshall, Clement Oladele, FRSC Zonal Commanding Officer in charge of Benue, Nasarawa and Plateau states, made the disclosure on Wednesday in Jos.</p>, <p>Oladele, who stated this when he visited the leadership of the Nigeria Union Journalists (NUJ), Plateau Council, said that it was a crime for anyone to cover his/her number plate.</p>, <p>He expressed worry that some persons who considered themselves big men, were covering their vehicle registration numbers in contravention of the national traffic regulations.</p>, <p>“The national traffic regulation specifies that any vehicle that is on the highway must have an identity, and we have decided as a corps to commence the clampdown on such traffic offenders.</p>, <p>“Why will you cover your number plate? What are you hiding from? The number plate is the identity of a vehicle just like a name.</p>, <p>“There is nobody that does not have a name, even though most of you have no choice of the names you were given, the same way too a car does not have a choice in the number plate that is allocated to it.</p>, <p>“We are starting our special operations, and we want you to assist us reach out to members of the public with the information,’’ he stated.</p>, <p>Oladele also decried the situation vehicles impounded by the FRSC, were left unclaimed for many days and even weeks.</p>, <p>The zonal commanding officer therefore, said motorists who failed to pay the fines for their traffic offences and collect their vehicles after seven days, would be charged to court.</p>, <p>“We will not give you the opportuni