- By Femi Alabi
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Delta State Command has said that no fewer than 6,225 permanent drivers’ licences are yet to be collected in the state.
The Sector Commander, FRSC, Delta Command, Bassey Eshiet in an interview on Wednesday expressed displeasure over the huge numbers of unclaimed drivers licenses in the command.
He frowned at motorists who processed their driver’s license and never bothered to go back and collect it.
“In spite of the efforts of the staff of the drivers’ license centre reaching out to the owners through their next of kin, the owners still do not go to pick up their drivers license.
“Some just get comfortable with the temporary drivers’ license issued to them, while most people don’t just create time out of their busy schedule to pick up their driver’s license.
The sector commander said that the command would soon embark on a joint operation to check drivers’ license in Asaba.
“We are intensifying our public awareness drive via motor parks, churches and media houses.
“The Command wants drivers with a temporary licence to collect their permanent driver’s licence at the motor licencing office where they had their biometric captured,” Eshiet said.
He said that possessing a valid licence was a requirement to driving in the country, and warned that driving without a licence “endangers the lives of road users and constitutes traffic infraction.
“It is a traffic violation to drive on Nigerian roads without an authorised driving permit, driver’s licence,”.