FRSC cancels deadline for new number plate

The Corps Marshall of the Federal Road Safety Commission, Nigeria, Mr. Boboye Oyeyemi, has said that the agency will no longer insist on any deadline for the enforcement of the new number plate.

Oyeyemi, who stated this on Wednesday in an interview with journalists when he paid a courtesy visit on Governor Theodore Orji at the Government House in Umuahia, said the agency would abide by the court ruling which restrained it from enforcing the proposal.

He explained that motorists who still had the old number plate would rather get the new ones when they go to renew their vehicle licences.

The corps marshal, however, vowed that the agency would not back down on the June 1, 2015 deadline for the enforcement of the speed limit device.

He said that by 2016, all imported vehicles in Nigeria must have speed limit device installed in them.

The policy, according to him, has become necessary because of the discovery that over 15.8 per cent auto crashes in the country was speed related.

He called on state governments to set up traffic management agencies to man state roads so that the FRSC could focus on interstate and federal roads for more effective results.

...Punch