VIO suspends registration of motorbikes for courier service in FCT
The FCT Directorate of Road Traffic Service (DTRS) has suspended the registration of motorbikes for courier services.
In an interview on Wednesday in Abuja, the service spokesperson, Kalu Emetu, said the registration was suspended two weeks ago.
He said that the DTRS had registered 2,000 motorbikes currently in use for courier services in the territory.
“We ended the registration of courier or dispatch motorbikes two weeks back. The reason is that we have seen the number is enough with the number we want to operate within the territory.
“We have about 2,000 at the moment. The implication is that if we register more, they will be everywhere, people will start seeing them constituting a nuisance to the territory than even the conventional ones,” the DRTS spokesman said.
Mr Emetu, however, said the service might consider registering more in the future.
“So, whoever goes ahead without our authorisation is on his or her own because our personnel will definitely impound such motorbike,” he added.
He said that the only exception would be motorbikes registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission or Federal Ministry of Industry.
Mr Emetu said the service had also taken steps to check unethical activities of some dispatch riders in the territory, including regulating their speed and training them to become better riders.
On number plates, the DRTS official said the plates have security features that made them difficult to forge.
“The number plates we give are customised; merely looking at them, we will know those that are registered by us or those that are not, at a glance. So it will be difficult to forge.
“This is because they come with some security features. Even if you get it from the people within, we will still get to know by way of checking our records.“
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