The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) on Tuesday said it would begin enforcement of the new drivers’ licence and number plate on Aug 1.
The Lagos State Sector Commander, Mr Chidi Nkwonta, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the decision followed the new court judgment.
Justice Peter Umeadi of a Federal High Court in Anambra on June 30, had ruled in a suit filed by Chief Ajefo Ekwo challenging FRSC’s powers to enforce new drivers’ licence and number plate.
Umeadi said that the respondent’s directive to change old drivers’ licence and number plates to new was legal, valid, subsisting and in conformity with the FRSC’s 2007 Act and the National Road Traffic Regulations of 2012.
Nkwonta, however, said that the recent judgment had put aside the earlier judgment of the Lagos High Court ruling that the corps had no authority to produce and fix deadline for the documents.
The FRSC commander said that the earlier judgment was given in error and the commission would stand by the new judgment while appealing against the earlier judgment.
He said that the command had not failed to process the vehicle documents for new applicants that patronised the commission after the initial judgment.
Nkwonta said that all the registration centres and 18 additional work stations in all parts of Lagos were functional and the network was effective.
He said that the commission had improved in the processes as well as working at weekends to make it easy for applicants.
NAN recalled that Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court in Lagos on March 26 declared that the FRSC had no legal authority to impose new number plates on motorists in the country.
The judge also held that “the ongoing exercise by the FRSC to replace the old number plate with a new one is illegal and unconstitutional because there is no law empowering it to carry out the exercise.’’
Justice Tsoho delivered the judgment in a suit filed by a Lagos-based lawyer, Mr Emmanuel Ofoegbu, against the FRSC.
In the suit, Ofoegbu had challenged the power of the commission to impound vehicles of motorists who failed to acquire the new number plates.
The plaintiff argued that there was no law validly made in accordance with the constitution prohibiting the use of the old number plates.
Meanwhile, Justice Umeadi declared that FRSC has power to impound any vehicle which fails to register for a new number plate and arrest any motorist who fails to obtain the new drivers’ licence.


http://nigerianpilot.com/frsc-to-enforce-new-drivers-licence-number-plate-aug-1/

We know why you people are blindly trying hard to produce and enforce the use of the new number plate/driver licence.
Too much money are there to be made.
No serious Agency government or private will give that up easily.
BTW, why are you people dead-lining its purchase and kept mute after you have collected money from especially Lagos users?
Just yesterday, 22/07/2014, one of my subordinates was complaining about not getting "captured" since September 2013!!!.
Yet, here you are talking about a perfect network when in Bariga where he has paid for capturing, had been without Printer, and bad network for over six months. We even call a number i will not disclose here where the receiver said hope is not in sight yet in Bariga.
We were told a new officer has just resumed there who also introduced his own cumbersome method of making money.
We are all aware of the motive.
You makes more money in Lagos than anywhere in Nigeria, hence, can go to any lenght to ensure supply chain is not broken...

No be Nigeria we dey?

Judgement??

Say it again!!