FRSC Declares 21,000 Drivers’ Licences Unclaimed In Rivers …Begins Clampdown On Vehicles

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said it has begun clampdown on vehicles and tricycles plying the roads without license, noting that about 21, 000 licenses were still unclaimed in Rivers State.
RRSC Sector Commander in Rivers State, David Mendie who disclosed this to newsmen in Port Harcourt said it is illegal for anyone to drive without a license because it is key to the transport business, noting that anyone who does that poses a security threat to the society.
Mendie further said the corps was carrying out enlightenment programmes across the country especially as the yuletide period is near, saying, “”Of course we (FRSC) are on air, we are everywhere and talking to them. We are even enforcing that of the Keke (Tricycle) and motorcycle that don’t have number plates on their vehicles and don’t even have keke riders’ license. We are on it. It is nation-wide.
“So these are means of making sure that the people that are having these vehicles and plying the roads are genuine people. And drivers’ license is key to any transport business on the road.
“Anybody plying the road without drivers’ license I always say that person is not a professional. It is illegal to go without a drivers’ license on the road ”Sometime some of them will even go to the RIRS and obtain their drivers’
license but they don’t go back to claim. There are so many drivers’ license lying there. I think about 21, 000 lying there without being claimed.
“But some people will say Road Safety since I went for capture and all that the license has not come. Yet they don’t go to get the license. Nobody will come to your house and give a license to you.
“Wherever the person went to get captured, he goes there to get the license. Because that license does not come to Road Safety per se once produced. Once produced it gets to Board of Internal Revenue Service and that is where the license domiciled,” he stated.