Police Nab Man With Fake Number Plates

The Abia State Police Com
mand last Monday said it arrested a man for alleged “forgery and unlawful’’ possession of four fake number plates.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr Usman Abubakar, who made the disclosure when he presented the suspect to newsmen, said the suspect was arrested in Aba on Sept. 16.
Abubakar told newsmen that the suspect was in possession of four number plates with the same numbers (Rivers KPR781AH).
He said that the command impounded a blue Toyota Camry car, belonging to the suspect, who he claimed, was dismissed from the Abia State Board of Internal Revenue (BIR).
The commissioner said the car bore Abia Government’s number plate, noting that the suspect had no authority to bear government’s vehicle number plate.
He said that the suspect would be charged to court.
The suspect, however, told newsmen that he was a BIR agent, adding that the number plates belonged to his client, who requested for them.
He explained that his client needed a new set of the number plates to replace the ones that had faded, adding that he got them through a “genuine source in Port Harcourt’’.
The suspect, who insisted that his business was genuine, declined further comments on how he also came about the government’s number plate.
Meanwhile, Abubakar has warned that the command would no longer tolerate the use of motorcycles, otherwise called ‘Okada’, in Umuahia and Aba.
He said the warning became necessary because criminals had started using the motorcycles to commit crime in the area.
He said the command would enforce the law prohibiting the use of the motorcycles, including men and officers of the law enforcement agencies.
“The law did not exempt anybody even the police, the army and men of the Road Safety Commission,’’ Abubakar said.