The Federal Roads Safety Commission (FRSC) and the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have expressed readiness to collaborate towards enhancing the nation’s vehicle database.
The FRSC is the agency saddled with the responsibility of managing Nigeria’s national vehicle and drivers’ information database under the National Vehicle Identification Scheme (NVIS).
The move was announced during the official visit of the Acting Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, to the FRSC’s Corps Marshal Dauda Aliu Biu at the national headquarters of the commission on Thursday.
The move The Nation gathered would enhance national security and curb revenue loss.
Speaking during the visit, the Acting Comptroller General said he would be looking forward to greater collaboration between the two agencies of government in the areas of human resources development, information and communication technology, as well as sports.
He said effective consolidation of existing vehicle information in the National Vehicle Identification Scheme database domiciled with the FRSC and vehicle database of the NCS will go a long way in curbing vehicle smuggling, improve revenue generation and enhance national security.
The Corps Marshal, while responding to the Comptroller General, applauded the initiative, stating that the data sharing would not only strengthen the bond between the two agencies but also positively impact the fight against the smuggling of vehicles.
Speaking further, Biu stated emphatically that the collaboration will also entrench ease of doing business as it will make tracking of vehicles without customs duty certificate very easy for the Corps at the point of registration.
He beckoned on CG Bashir Adewale to make enforcement of restriction of importation of vehicles whose ages at the point of importation, are, above the specified legal age limit one of his key priorities.
While decrying the dangers of using fairly used tyres, Biu also seeks enhanced enforcement of the ban on the importation of deadly tyres into the country.