Stiff penalties await those who drive vehicles with faded number plates in the FCT.
Public Relations and Enlightenment Officer of the Vehicle Inspection Office (VIO) in the FCT, Mr Kalu Emetu, made the declaration when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday.
He said the newly-appointed FCT VIO Director, Mr Abdul-Lateef Bello issued the warning while addressing VIO personnel on the need for strict enforcement of rules and regulations.
Bello told the personnel also that it was important to ensure that rickety vehicles and commercial motorcycles stayed off FCT roads.
He said that the inappropriate use of VIO’s Off-the Road Form on defaulters within the territory led to increased presence of vehicles meant to actually be off the road.
Emetu quoted Bello as also saying that more efforts would be channelled to traffic control and management as those areas had not projected the directorate positively to Nigerians.
Bello said the Federal Government planned to use better technology to man roads for better vehicle inspection.
He said cameras would soon be deployed for road monitoring so that defaulters would be recognised technologically and charged appropriately.
He said also that the resurgence of operations of commercial motorcycles along Airport Road and Lugbe Areas which had been banned since 2006 was a major concern for the VIO.
The FCT VIO boss ordered the immediate establishment of “Pin-down points’’ at every intersection along the Airport Road.
According to him, the FCT has a model and anything that will not give it such prominence will not be tolerated.
