VIO to sanction drivers over faded number plates
The Vehicle Inspection Office (VIO) spokesman in the FCT, Kalu Emetu, disclosed this on Thursday.
He said the newly-appointed FCT VIO director, Abdul-Lateef Bello, issued the warning while addressing VIO personnel’s need for strict enforcement of rules and regulations.
Mr Bello told the personnel to ensure that rickety vehicles and commercial motorcycles stayed off FCT roads.
He added that the inappropriate use of VIO’s off-the-road form on defaulters within the territory led to an increased presence of vehicles meant to be off the road.
Mr Emetu quoted Bello as also saying that more efforts would be channelled to traffic control and management.
Mr 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 also said that the resurgence of operations of commercial motorcycles along Airport Road and Lugbe areas, banned since 2006, was a major concern for the VIO.
The FCT VIO boss ordered the immediate establishment of ‘pin-down points’’ at intersections along Airport Road.
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