Benue: FRSC begins recent crackdown on faux plate numbers, overloading

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has commenced the second section of its particular intervention patrol in Benue state, code-named Operation Guduma, focusing on motorists whose site visitors violations might undermine nationwide safety.

The five-day operation, which started on November 2, 2026, is being performed in Benue and 11 different states to implement compliance with car registration and site visitors rules.

Speaking on Tuesday at Agan toll gate in Makurdi throughout the flag-off ceremony of the train in Benue state, Corps Commander, Christopher Haruna Kuje, who represented the Corps Marshal, Shehu Mohammed, mentioned the operation would goal motorists utilizing faux, lined, defaced or expired quantity plates, in addition to automobiles with out registration plates and people concerned in overloading passengers, animals and items.

Kuje who was accompanied by the Benue state Sector Commander, Corps Commander Victory A. Kayode-Oni, defined that Guduma, a Hausa phrase that means hammer, was designed to crack down on site visitors offenders and deal with safety threats related to unidentifiable automobiles.

According to him, automobiles with out real registration plates pose safety dangers as a result of their house owners and customers can not simply be recognized or traced when prison incidents happen.

Kuje mentioned personnel from the FRSC nationwide headquarters had been deployed to oversee the train alongside state instructions and different safety companies.

Kuje disclosed that the primary section of Operation Guduma, performed from May 18 to 22, 2026, resulted within the arrest of greater than 1,600 motorists throughout 11 states, with offenders dealing with authorized motion and motorists utilizing faux diplomatic quantity plates handed over to the DSS for additional investigation.

He urged motorists to make sure their automobiles have been correctly registered, warning that enforcement would proceed on the state degree after the five-day particular intervention patrol ends on November 6, 2026.