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THE Egbede unit of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Oyo State, has handed over a stolen vehicle to its owner, one year after it was recovered.
The unit recovered the car with registration number, Lagos FST 855 GL at Osengere area on Ife-Ibadan expressway on Sept. 17, 2021, but was unable to contact the owner of the Opel Safiran car.
The Unit Commander, Akeem Kareem, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Ibadan that the owner of the vehicle had switched off the phone line with which he registered the car.
He said that a patrol team found the car parked on the road, causing obstruction to other road users and had to be removed and towed to the FRSC office for investigation.
“The vehicle has been in our office since then.
“We tried to contact the owner through the information gotten from our National Vehicle Identification System, but his phone contact was not going through.
“However, just of recent, we were able to get the owner who said that he had problem with his SIM card, which took him a long time to retrieve, hence the reason we were unable to reach him.
“The owner said he had concluded that the car would not be found, because the person he gave the vehicle to had also disappeared and could not be located,” Kareem said.
According to him, the man has provided necessary proof of ownership and the vehicle will be released to him after completion of relevant documentation.
The FRSC unit commander advised Nigerians to ensure proper registration of their vehicles.
He said that FRSC’s National Vehicle Identification System (NVIS) had helped in retrieving a lot of stolen vehicles and tackled other security issues.
”People should cooperate with us, many people are still using vehicles and motorcycles without number plates and any vehicle or motorcycle caught, will be impounded and the owner made to do the needful.
“The importance of proper registration of vehicles cannot be overemphasised, it helps in the area of security.
“If a vehicle owner commits an offence and we are able to get the number, we can trace the person through the information on our NVIS.
“We have used the system to recover many stolen vehicles and FRSC will not relent in ensuring that vehicle owners do the right thing,” Kareem said. (NAN)
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