NIGERIAN SENATE & THE FRSC MAGIC NUMBER PLATES

"one who believes himself too intelligent fears to ask a seemingly unintelligent question, but the layman has no fear in his asking, as the intelligence of the oppressor will fail to answer his pain"


With so much criticism accrued the imposed new and more expensive number plates on Nigerians, the cries and complains somehow found its way to  the senate house in Abuja. Though delayed, but necessary intervention has finally arrived.

Looking at the senate through the vista of post subsidy protests, its evident a proactive spirit has visibly awakened within the loins of the 7th assembly senate house. Its impressive the constructive arguments the sessions of the senate has witnessed in most recent times, looking to have moved away from frivolous matters such as legalizing prostitution to actually doing the work of legislating and being intermediary for the Nigerian citizen. Speaking of most recent issues such as the subsidy probe, the Nigerian Football Association  inquiry and the ban on same sex marriage.

Not to blow trumpets of  success yet as much still remains to be done, but the senate directive instructing the FRSC to stop production and sale of its controversial modified number plates which is not only questionable but also a fraudulent scheme conceived by the Federal Road Safety Corps is more than a welcome development. The new plate numbers  have little difference save the reversal of the alphabets and the embossing of the map of Nigeria on it. The numbering system remains the same, so also the size and design.

With the usual elaborate explanations Nigerians are fed  with whenever a fraudulent act is cooking, the FRSC came up with numerous stories about security features and central data systems and other variations of the popular cock and bull stories and promises. Its amazing how a group of learned people sit around a table and come up with ideas such as the new plate numbers, pat themselves on the back, sell the idea to a few other people (who wouldn't tell them the truth about how wrong it is) and finally unveil it to the public and expect the general populace to swallow, hook line and sinker.

Now beaten to the wall, the FRSC would have to explore other options from its think tank to achieve a considerable percentage of the challenges the miracle plate numbers and licences should have angelically combated to a stand still.