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FRSC trails, clamps down on wanted traffic offenders from January 25

Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi, Corps Marshal of the FRSC

*Operatives of the Federal Road Safety Corps are searching for offenders already declared wanted after exceeding the days of grace period from the dates of arrests and issuance of Notice of Offence tickets: Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi, Corps Marshal of the FRSC

Alexander Davis | ConsumerConnect

For wanted traffic offenders yet to effect payment of fines, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has disclosed it is now set to clamp down on them henceforth.

Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi, Corps Marshal of the FRSC, in a statement issued by Bisi Kazeem, Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO) and Assistant Corps Marshal (ACM), said the Corps would go after wanted offenders as from Monday, January 25.

Oyeyemi, who held the year’s first “Strategy Session of Zonal Commanding Officers and Sector Commanders on Zero Tolerance to Crashes in 2021’’, Friday, January 22, said the FRSC operatives are now searching for offenders already declared wanted after exceeding the days of grace period from the dates of arrests and issuance of Notice of Offence tickets.

Offenders who voluntarily report at any of the FRSC offices nationwide and make payment would not be prosecuted, noted Oyeyemi.

According to the Corps Marshal, names of the offenders would be uploaded from the Corps Duty Room Information and Management System (DRIMS) in the next 48 hours.

He said: “It follows that beginning from Monday, January 25, 2021 all commands shall commence the arrest of the targeted offenders, which will include home arrest where necessary, deploying the New Vehicle Identification System (NVIS).

“Offenders with genuine handicaps will be handled with compassion that the case deserves.”

He added: “For instance a document such as vehicle licence, which is not expensive to procure, could be forfeited by any offender when he or she is fined N15,000 for committing a traffic offence and the offender can easily afford another document.

“Such offenders would be declared wanted because we have all the information we need to arrest and we will go after them. That is what we are set to do as we will upload their names from the DRIMS.”

Oyeyemi stressed the Corps had re-engineered the NVIS such that the data had become more responsive to the detection of foul practices.

He as well revealed that a total of 279 stolen vehicles were recovered in the past six years and handed over to the appropriate authorities for further investigation.

The FRSC Chief urged stakeholders in the vehicle registration process to ensure that the required detailed information about vehicle ownership was obtained before issuance of number plates.

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