The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Delta Command on Wednesday said that no fewer than 4,651 permanent driver’s licenses were yet to be collected in the state.
Mr Muftau Irekeola, the state Sector Commander, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Asaba.
Irekeola said that as at December 2023, the total number of uncollected driver’s licenses stood at 3,953, adding that since the commencement of 2024, about 23,513 have been produced.
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He added that since the beginning of the year only about 18,962 permanent driver’s licenses have been collected.
The sector commander frowned at motorists who process their driver’s licenses and never bother to go back to collect it.
”In spite of the efforts of the staff of the drivers’ license center reaching out to the owners through their next of kin, the owners still do not go to pick up their drivers license.
”Some just get comfortable with the temporary drivers’ license issued to them, while most people don’t just create time out of their busy schedule to pick up their driver’s license,” Irekeola said.
He also said that possessing a valid license was a requirement to driving in the country, and warned that driving without a license endangered the lives of road users and constitutes traffic infraction.
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”Whoever is driving on the road without a driver’s license and an accident occurs and pre adventures there is loss of life, such a person will be tried in court as a murderer instead of manslaughter.
”If they have a driver’s license and it is expired they will not be treated as murder because he or she has undergone a drivers test and has a driver’s license even though it has expired.
”The Command wants drivers with temporary license to collect their permanent driver’s license at the motor licensing office where they had their biometric captured,” Irekeola said.
The sector commander said that the command would be collaborating soon with the board of internal revenue on “operation show your license” to check drivers’ driving without a license in Asaba.
