The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, will begin checks of driver’s license across Lagos State. Hyginus Omeje, the state sector commander, FRSC, disclosed this on Saturday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.
He however, said that 56, 767 driving licenses were yet to be collected by their owners. While stating that the command would soon embark on “Operation Show Your Driving License”, he urged the license owners to get their documents.
“We are embarking on this assignment so that motorists will come to our office to collect their driving’ licences.
“We have no backlog of new driving licences in Lagos State.
“There are 56,767 licenses yet to be collected by their owners.
“We have sent SMS to their owners that their licences are ready for collection but they ignored responding to our our messages,’’ the FRSC boss said.
Omeje frowned at the attitude of some road users driving without valid licenses saying that they remained the only certification to drive on the road.
According to him, the fine for a driver driving without a valid licence is N10, 000 and the offender must produce the license within 24 hours.
Omeje said if after 24 hours such offender could not produce a valid license, the vehicle of such offender would be impounded.
He said that in such situation, it would be assumed that the driver was not licensed to drive.
The commander said that the corps was not interested in the fines or depriving anyone the comfort of his vehicle, but advised motorists to do the right thing and be safety conscious.
He also revealed that between Feb. 26 and March 2, no fewer than 4, 644 licenses were collected by the applicants.
(NAN)
