The Federal Road Safety Corps, or FRSC, will start cracking down on unregistered motorcycles all around the nation right away.
The order was given to the 37 Sector Commanders on Monday in Abuja by Acting Corps Marshal Dauda Ali Biu.
According to a statement made by the FRSC’s Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, the organization has noticed an increase in the number of unregistered motorcycles using the nation’s highways.
The action, in kazeem’s opinion, would help to guarantee that every two-wheel vehicle is accurately recorded in the database of the National Vehicle Identification Scheme.
He declared that the command will be fully implemented right now by the 37 Sector Commanders.
“The order was necessitated by the state of insecurity and the need to curb it by bringing to a halt the continuous operations of these categories of vehicles without registration on our roads,” the statement said.
The Acting Corps Marshal instructed the Sector Commanders to immediately coordinate with the Boards of Internal Revenue in their respective states, form a Taskforce in collaboration with the Nigeria Police Force and other security agencies where necessary, including the Vehicle Inspection Office and other stakeholders for effective enforcement, while emphasizing the security implications of not including all motorcycles in the national database.
Additionally, the head of the FRSC ordered that “the unregistered motorcycles are to be impounded while the owners are mandated to begin and complete full registration of the motorcycles before they are released.”
He added that “the operation is aimed at getting unregistered motorcycles registered and documented in the national database. Therefore, operatives may not issue a notice of offence ticket to the operators. However, all motorbikes impounded must be fully documented.”
