FRSC launches fresh crackdown on fake number plates, vehicle overloading in Benue

The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has launched a renewed enforcement operation in Benue State to apprehend motorists violating vehicle registration and highway visitors laws, notably these whose offences pose potential safety threats.

The train, tagged Operation Guduma, is the second section of a particular nationwide intervention patrol protecting 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, mentioned the operation would focus on automobiles displaying fake, hid, defaced or expired number plates, in addition to unregistered automobiles.

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

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

He famous that the usage of fake or non-existent vehicle registration numbers makes it troublesome for safety companies to determine the identities of vehicle house owners and monitor them when legal 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 companies.

Giving an account of the primary section of Operation Guduma, Kuje mentioned 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 have been subjected to authorized proceedings, whereas motorists discovered utilizing counterfeit diplomatic number plates have been transferred to the Department of State Services for additional investigation.

Kuje referred to as on vehicle house owners and drivers to adjust to registration necessities and different visitors laws, 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.