FRSC targets motorists using fake, concealed number plates in Bauchi

The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has taken its enforcement run against motorists with irregular conveyance registration numbers to Bauchi State, informing that offenders volition nary longer beryllium spared.

The five-day operation, tagged Operation Guduma (Hammer), targets vehicles with fake, missing, faded, covered and unauthorised diplomatic fig plates.

The workout is portion of a nationwide information measurement directed by the Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA, to guarantee that vehicles tin beryllium traced done their registration details and ownership records.

Leading the cognition successful Bauchi, Corps Commander Chorrie Muta’a said the misuse of authorities registration numbers by backstage conveyance owners had go a information concern.

He explained that immoderate individuals, including authorities officials, allegedly transportation authoritative fig plates to their idiosyncratic vehicles to debar recognition erstwhile progressive successful offences.

Muta’a said concealing registration numbers, peculiarly connected vehicles with tinted windows, could marque it hard for information agencies to place motorists progressive successful hit-and-run incidents and different crimes.

He likened driving without a valid registration fig to having a kid without a name, insisting that each conveyance indispensable person a recognised identity.

According to him, the enforcement squad would widen its operations beyond Bauchi metropolis to each 20 section authorities areas of the state.

He said the Corps had carried retired akin exerci...