20,000 Driver’s Licences Abandoned

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At least, 20,000 driver’s licences are yet to be collected by their owners at the Ojodu office of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, and the Lagos Vehicle Inspection Service, VIS, says Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, western Nigeria.

Fashola, who was at the VIS office, Ojodu, Lagos, on Thursday to complete the process  for a new driver’s licence said he was told that 20,000 drivers’ licences were ready for collection but their owners have not come for them.

“The only thing now is that I was told that there is a batch of drivers’ licences there that people have not come to collect. So, we will, at the state level and the Federal Road Safety Commission, have to put on our thinking caps about how to create public awareness on this.

“I am told that about 20,000 people out there are yet to collect their licences. They (driver’s licence facility agencies) are concerned about cost and may be they are thinking about how to publish the names on the internet or something. Perhaps it is a good time, those who have come here for biometrics may come here and do random check and they will respond to them,” he said.

The governor directed all the agencies concerned to publicise the fact that over 20,000 licences were ready for collection across the state.

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Fashola went through the eye and written tests with the Vehicle Inspection Service (VIS) and photo data capture with the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) at the end of which he got his temporary driver’s licence.

He described his experience during the exercise as good, adding, however, that it was presumptuous to judge with his own experience since it could also be possible that he received a fast tracked treatment because of who he is.

Notwithstanding, the governor said he got favourable feedback from members of the public whom he met at the facility, saying: “what is important is that I asked citizens who are here and the totality of their experiences from the Vehicle Inspection Service and the FRSC indicate that things are certainly getting better. So, it only suggests to me that all of the initial impressions that we had were teething problems.”

Fashola attributed the initial congestion at the place to the fact that so many people were striving to get into the restricted place at the same time, expressing joy that “after all of the initial problems, things are turning out for the better” adding, “People now have appointments and from all that is being said, they keep their appointments and they get good services, so far so good.”

—Kazeem Ugbodaga

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