Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has said it did not produce or issue
a number plate bearing ‘CHIP WHIP’ used by the chief whip of Kano
State House of Assembly.
In a statement issued on Sunday, the corps public education officer,
Bisi Kazeem, said the number plate “did not originate from any of the
FRSC number plate production centres, neither was it issued by the
Corps”.
He said the agency could not have made such a grammatical error owing
to its rigorous quality-assurance procedure in producing and issuing
licences.
“For the avoidance of doubt, FRSC with its international quality
management certification (ISO 9001: 2008) has rigorous quality
procedures for producing and issuing any of its security documents
which makes the possibility of such obvious grammatical errors on any
of its licences an impossibility,” Kazeem said.
“We are therefore making it abundantly clear to members of the public
that FRSC as the lead agency in road traffic management and safety
administration in the country has nothing to do with the said number
plate as some people are insinuating on some social media platforms.”
He said Boboye Oyeyemi, the corps marshal, asked the sector commander
of Kano to investigate the origin of the purported number plate and
punish the perpetrators.
Oyeyemi was also said to have asked all field commands across the
country to be vigilant and clampdown on producers and issuers of fake
number plates.
