The Federal Street Security Corps (FRSC) has arrested 7,798 people throughout Nigeria in two months for offences associated to faux automobile quantity plates.
The Corps Marshal, Malam Shehu Mohammed, disclosed this on Wednesday throughout a gathering with the Home of Representatives Committee on FRSC in Abuja.
The assembly was convened in response to issues over the widespread proliferation of pretend automobile quantity plates, which pose a big danger to public security and nationwide safety.
He revealed that regardless of encountering sturdy resistance from automobile house owners utilizing faux quantity plates, the Corps stays resolute in its crackdown.
“FRSC’s proactiveness got here after recording a staggering 7,798 arrests of quantity plates associated offenses in simply two months,” Mohammed said.
Mohammed famous that the rising pattern of motorists utilizing faux or unauthorized quantity plates has extreme safety implications. He defined that it hampers safety businesses’ skill to trace and determine autos concerned in prison actions.
“This pattern, in accordance with the Corps Marshal, poses important safety dangers, because it hinders efforts to trace and determine autos concerned in crimes by safety businesses,” he stated.
The FRSC additionally reaffirmed its dedication to enhancing the Nationwide Car Identification Scheme (NVIS) Portal to stop using faux registrations.
The Lagos State Sector Commander of the Federal Street Security Corps, Kehinde Hamzat, in February 2025 confirmed that the FRSC has launched a particular operation to determine and root out faux quantity plates nationwide.
“In the event you test these numbers on the database, you’ll uncover they don’t seem to be anyplace. So after they misbehave, you begin tracing the automobile, however you’ll be able to’t determine it. We try to choose as a lot of them as doable to analyze and prosecute them appropriately,” he stated.
Moreover, the Corps Marshal, Malam Shehu Mohammed, has directed FRSC officers to arrest and impound autos related to NANS constructions suspected of utilizing faux quantity plates
