FRSC to manufacture novel single driver-rider’s licence

The Federal Avenue Safety Corps (FRSC) says this would possibly maybe provide a single licence for motor automobile drivers and motorcycle riders.

The sphere commander, RS6.1, Rivers, Salisu Galadunci, said, “When you happen to would possibly maybe maybe well perchance be a motorcycle and motor automobile rider/driver, you is now not going to beget to course of driver’s licence for the 2 one by one. You’ll be able to most efficient course of one which covers the 2. So, it’ll be two licences in a single card.”

The corps is furthermore setting up awareness for motorcycle riders to grab that there are classes of driver’s licence, alongside side driver’s licence for motorcycle riders.

He added, “I beget in discovering so many other folk riding bikes, and at the same time as you query them to manufacture their driver’s licences, they’ll actual explore at you. But we are setting up awareness for them to grab that there are classes of driver’s licence, and one in every of them is driver’s licence for motorcycle riders.”

The sphere commander additional said commercial motorcycle operators had identification codes/numbers in identification cards thru their union and the verbalize’s transport ministry.

In Akwa Ibom, sector commander Matthew Olonisaye explained that FRSC used to be dedicated to making sure that everybody bikes working within the verbalize are registered and the riders licensed to decrease crime.

“No one is allowed below the law to feature any vehicle without being licensed, and there are classes of licence for every category. For a motorcycle, a bike owner is expected to beget a class ‘A’ driver’s licence,” Mr Olonisaye explained. “All autos must endure a registration number. It’s actual like a name of an person. The number identifies the bike or the automobile.”

Also talking, FRSC’s spokesman for Injurious River sector order, Label Ajunta, said, “When we peek any unlicensed motorcycle, we impound such unless the owner will get the wanted papers ahead of it’s a long way released to her or him.”

Meanwhile, Delta sector commander Ibrahim Abubakar has said for a commercial motorcycle to feature within the verbalize, the owner can beget to create a rider’s licence or possibility being impounded.

“FRSC mandates commercial motorcycle operators to register their vehicles, and likewise, they must create a rider’s licence. In 2019 we began the clampdown on all unregistered bikes and tricycles within the nation,” said Mr Abubakar.

(NAN)