For where - Find me all those cars with fake custom papers - Jona tells FRSC

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, has directed the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) to impound cars seeking registration with fake custom papers.

He gave the order on Wednesday, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, when the Corps Marshal of the FRSC, Osita Chidoka, presented an update on Nigeria’s status on the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety (2011-2020) to the Federal Executive Council (FEC).

Briefing State House correspondents after the meeting, Chidoka, who joined the Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, said the president had asked the corps to impound any vehicle seeking registration with the FRSC without genuine customs papers.
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He said the president’s directive would speed up the accumulation of reliable database on cars plying the roads and eliminate fraudulent customs papers many motorists presented. 

According to him, “data of all the cars which are validly entered into the country through the customs system is already domiciled in our system.

“So, when we enter your chassis number and that car does not come up on the system, then you have to get a genuine customs papers because what you carry are fake papers.

“We have been able to do that for the insurance industry.

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