The Lagos State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Kehinde Hamzat, has expressed serious concerns over the increasing use of fake number plates bearing labels such as the Presidency, Nigerian Youth Council (NYC), and National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) for criminal activities.
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Hamzat disclosed this during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, stating that the abuse of these number plates poses a significant security threat to the country.
According to Hamzat, criminals are exploiting these fake plates to avoid police checks and carry out illegal activities without being easily traced. He explained, “We think that most of these number plates are labelled Presidency, NYC, NANS, and some others, knowing fully well that these are established institutions that probably law enforcement agents wouldn’t want to disturb. We now discover that they use all these things to perpetuate evils, and it’s becoming a security threat to the country.”
He further revealed that most of these plates are not registered in the national vehicle database, making it difficult to trace the vehicles when crimes are committed. “If you check these numbers on the database, you’ll discover they are not anywhere. So when they misbehave, you start tracing the vehicle, you can’t identify it,” he added.
In response to the growing threat, the FRSC has initiated a special operation to identify and impound vehicles with fake number plates. Hamzat stated that the corps is working to investigate and prosecute offenders as part of efforts to protect the integrity of the National Vehicle Identification Scheme (NVIS).
“We are trying to pick as many of them as possible to investigate and prosecute them appropriately,” he said.
The crackdown on fake number plates follows a directive by the FRSC Corps Marshal, Malam Shehu Mohammed, who ordered officers to target vehicles carrying fake plates, particularly those linked to NANS. However, the directive has sparked a backlash from the student body.
NANS has threatened to shut down FRSC offices nationwide if their official vehicles are impounded. The association argues that the directive unfairly targets their legitimate operations and could disrupt their activities.
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