Senate stops sale of new vehicle plates

 Its about time. Because I keep wondering what we need new number plates and drivers licence for.............. Its just another way of extorting people.

The Senate, on Wednesday, ordered the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) to stop issuing new vehicle number plates and driver’s license.

The order followed the adoption of a motion sponsored by Senator Dahiru Kuta and 19 others in which they condemned the indiscriminate fees charged by the FRSC on the new number plates and driver’s license.

The lawmakers described the new vehicle number plates as illegal because the act that set up the FRSC does not empower it to issue number plates.


They also accused the FRSC of having abandoned its primary mandates of ensuring safety on Nigeria roads by turning itself into a revenue generating agency.

"The commission was not established principally as a revenue generating agency for states or the federal government," said Kuta. "But the commission in recent times has embarked on frequent and arbitrary introduction and reintroduction of vehicle number plates and driver’s licenses."
The price of the new number plates have alternated between N15000 and N45000, while the driver's license goes for between N6000 and N10000.

"The exorbitant cost of the driver’s license and vehicle plate number is meant to financially improvise Nigerians because the amount is exploitative, prohibitive and insensitive for a population that is already facing challenges of harsh economic conditions," said Kuta.

Culled from Dailytimes