The controversial plate number
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has insisted that it didn’t
produce or issue a number plate bearing ‘CHIP WHIP’ used by the chief
whip of Kano state house of assembly.
In a statement issued on Sunday, Bisi Kazeem, the corps public
education officer, said the number plate “did not originate from any of
the FRSC number plate production centres, neither was it issued by the
Corps”.
He said the agency could not have made such a grammatical error
owing to its rigorous quality-assurance procedure in producing and
issuing licences.
“For the avoidance of doubt, FRSC with its international
quality management certification (ISO 9001: 2008) has rigorous quality
procedures for producing and issuing any of its security documents which
makes the possibility of such obvious grammatical errors on any of its
licences an impossibility,” Kazeem said.
“We are therefore making it abundantly clear to members of the
public that FRSC as the lead agency in road traffic management and
safety administration in the country has nothing to do with the said
number plate as some people are insinuating on some social media
platforms.”
He said Boboye Oyeyemi, the corps marshal, asked the sector
commander of Kano to investigate the origin of the purported number
plate and punish the perpetrators.
Oyeyemi was also said to have asked all field commands across the
country to be vigilant and clampdown on producers and issuers of fake
number plates.