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Frsc
to partner with efcc on driver’s licence
By Sun News Publishing
Friday, April 18, 2008
The Corps Marshal and Chief Executive of the Federal Road
Safety Commission (FRSC), Osita Chidoka, has reiterated his
commitment to the restoration of the integrity of the driver’s
licence through a collaboration with the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Chidoka said this while delivering a goodwill message at the
2nd AML/CFT Compliance Stakeholders Submit organized by the
EFCC at Sheraton Hotel, Abuja. While congratulating the crime
commission for creating adequate consciousness among Nigerians
on issues of corruption, the Corps Marshal stressed that if
the tempo was sustained, Nigeria would soon become a corrupt-free
nation.
Chidoka, who explained the relationship between the FRSC and
EFCC, emphasized that driver’s Licence Worldwide is
a major form of national identity acceptable both in business
and social circles. Thus he said, if allowed to become corrupted
as Nigeria experienced with the system in the past through
forgery and parallel production centres, it is capable of
distorting our national records and eroding citizens’
confidence in the nation.
It is to avert such ugly development the Corps Marshal said
that the Commission entered into partnership with the anti-corruption
body to ensure that the system was made free of such malpractices,
so that its integrity could be restored.
Chidoka further stressed that the newly designed driver’s
licence with added security features would soon be launched,
while its validity can be ascertained online through internet
facilities available at the embassies, ports and banks. In
the same vein, there would be hand-held fake detecting devices
available to patrolmen on duty nationwide. He, therefore,
called on the people to avail themselves of the opportunity
of ascertaining the validity of their driver’s licences
as soon as the facilities are put in place.
While answering reporters’ questions later, the Corps
Marshal emphasized that with the measures being put in place
by the Commission, cases of forgery and parallel production
identified with the past system in the past would be adequately
dealt with, while the syndicates and the fraudulent consultants
conniving with them would be out of business.
He assured the nation that with efficient licensing system
and certification of the driving schools currently being embarked
upon by the Commission, the national desire for accident-free
roads would be attainable, while the Commission will be better
positioned towards contributing its quota to the realization
of the nation’s vision 2020.
The two-day summit had in attendance, all stakeholders from
business and anti-corruption related agencies.
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