FRSC launches contemporary crackdown on faux quantity plates, car overloading in Benue

The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has launched a renewed enforcement operation in Benue State to apprehend motorists violating car registration and street site visitors rules, significantly these whose offences pose potential safety threats.

The train, tagged Operation Guduma, is the second section of a particular nationwide intervention patrol masking Benue and 11 different states.

The five-day operation commenced on November 2, 2026.

At the flag-off ceremony held on Tuesday at Agan Toll Gate, Makurdi, Corps Commander Christopher Haruna Kuje, who represented the Corps Marshal, Shehu Mohammed, stated the operation would concentrate on automobiles displaying faux, hid, defaced or expired quantity plates, in addition to unregistered automobiles.

He added that motorists concerned in overloading passengers, animals and items would even be apprehended through the train.

Kuje, who was accompanied by the Benue State Sector Commander, Corps Commander Victory A. Kayode-Oni, defined that Guduma, which suggests hammer in Hausa, symbolised the Corps’ dedication to clamp down on site visitors violations and sort out safety challenges linked to automobiles that can not be correctly recognized.

He famous that the usage of faux or non-existent car registration numbers makes it troublesome for safety businesses to determine the identities of auto house owners and monitor them when felony actions are reported.

The Corps Commander additional revealed that officers from the FRSC nationwide headquarters had been deployed to observe the operation in collaboration with state instructions and different safety businesses.

Giving an account of the primary section of Operation Guduma, Kuje stated the train, carried out between May 18 and 22, 2026, led to the arrest of over 1,600 motorists throughout 11 states.

He disclosed that the arrested offenders had been subjected to authorized proceedings, whereas motorists discovered utilizing counterfeit diplomatic quantity plates had been transferred to the Department of State Services for additional investigation.

Kuje known as on car house owners and drivers to adjust to registration necessities and different site visitors rules, stressing that the enforcement marketing campaign wouldn’t finish with the particular patrol.

He warned that state instructions would maintain the operation past November 6, 2026, when the five-day nationwide intervention is scheduled to conclude.