FRSC launches fresh crackdown on fake number plates, vehicle overloading in Benue

The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has launched a renewed enforcement cognition successful Benue State to apprehend motorists violating conveyance registration and roadworthy postulation regulations, peculiarly those whose offences airs imaginable information threats.

The exercise, tagged Operation Guduma, is the 2nd signifier of a peculiar nationwide involution patrol covering Benue and 11 different states.

The five-day cognition commenced connected November 2, 2026.

At the flag-off ceremonial held connected Tuesday astatine Agan Toll Gate, Makurdi, Corps Commander Christopher Haruna Kuje, who represented the Corps Marshal, Shehu Mohammed, said the cognition would absorption connected vehicles displaying fake, concealed, defaced oregon expired fig plates, arsenic good arsenic unregistered vehicles.

He added that motorists progressive successful overloading passengers, animals and goods would besides beryllium apprehended during the exercise.

Kuje, who was accompanied by the Benue State Sector Commander, Corps Commander Victory A. Kayode-Oni, explained that Guduma, which means hammer successful Hausa, symbolised the Corps' determination to clamp down connected postulation violations and tackle information challenges linked to vehicles that cannot beryllium decently identified.

He noted that the usage of fake oregon non-existent conveyance registration numbers makes it hard for information agencies to found the identities of conveyance owners and way them erstwhile transgression activities are reported.

The Corps Commander further revealed that officers from the FRSC nationalist office had been deployed to show the cognition successful collaboration with authorities commands and different information agencies.

Giving an relationship of the archetypal signifier of Operation Guduma, Kuje said the exercise, conducted betwixt May 18 and 22, 2026, led to the apprehension of implicit 1,600 motorists crossed 11 states.

He disclosed that the arrested offenders were subjected to ineligible proceedings, portion motorists recovered utilizing counterfeit diplomatic fig plates were transferred to the Department of State Services for further investigation.

Kuje called connected conveyance owners and drivers to comply with registration requirements and different postulation regulations, stressing that the enforcement run would not extremity with the peculiar patrol.

He warned that authorities commands would prolong the cognition beyond November 6, 2026, erstwhile the five-day nationwide involution is scheduled to conclude.

FRSC launches caller crackdown connected fake fig plates, conveyance overloading successful Benue