A consultant to Niger State Board of Internal Revenue Service on Vehicle and Motorcycle Number Plates, Alhaji Musa Ahmed, has said that the shortage of vehicle and motorcycle number plates at the Lagos factory of the Federal Roads Safety Corps (FRSC) for distribution to millions of prospective buyers in the 36 states of the federation and Abuja, portends grave risk for both the government and the citizenry.
He stated this in a media briefing with the newsmen, at the government house, Minna, just as he advocated for an urgent decentralization of the issuance of both vehicle and motorcycle number plates in the six geo-political zones of the country.
The businessman, noted that a situation whereby most of the vehicles and motorcycles plying the nation’s highways in the recent times did not have registration numbers could further compound the ongoing security problems in the country as criminal elements could easily hide under the guise of vehicles with no registered number plates and motorbikes to carry out their nefarious activities.
Ahmed further disclosed that many people including himself from different parts of the country like Abuja, Adamawa, Kano, Niger, Taraba and Osun states, recently went to procure number plates with hundreds of millions of naira for their respective states, at the Lagos plant of the FRSC, but said that the organization could not meet the increasing demands for number plates.