Shehu Mohammed , Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), in this interview with BusinessDay Managing Editor John Osadolor, Tony Ailemen, and Favour Okpale , reveals how over speeding i]s responsible for 70% of carnages on Nigerian roads and why FRSC is introducing new technologies to enhance road safety, check FRSC staff excesses, combat traffic violations, and improve monitoring of drivers in Nigeria...
..Excerpts Why does it take the Federal Road Safety Corps so long to process a driver’s licence? It’s a question that we have been getting almost daily.
But the difference between the driver’s licence and the national passport is that for the driver’s licence, you need to pass through training to be certified as a driver first. For the passport, anybody who is a citizen of the country and has the capacity to pay can have that identity. So you can get an international passport faster than the driver’s licence.
Secondly, in a driver’s licence, we have what we call partners that are at the back end and doing the technical work. We have the mandate to produce and issue licences, but the production is being done by partners. And you know how it is: sometimes machines get obsolete after years of usage.
And sometimes the software will also be obsolete and need to be updated. So, we are sometimes faced with a situation where our partners are not able to do those things as and when due. We may continue to have issues with the issuance of licences.
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