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Registration
Dutse, Oct. 5, 2016 (NAN) The Jigawa Board of Internal Revenue has advised vehicles owners in the state to renew registration of their vehicles in time to avoid embarrassment.
Alhaji Salisu Sani, the Coordinator of Road Taxes in the board, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dutse on Wednesday.
Sani said that the board would not tolerate delayed vehicle registration because of its negative impact on revenue generation of the state.
According to him, the board will soon collaborate with relevant stakeholders to set up a special team to arrest vehicles with expired licences.
Sani said that the team to be known as ‘Operation Show Your Particulars’ would comprise the police, Federal Road Safety Corps, vigilance groups and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.
He told NAN that there would also be a mobile court to try defaulters.
Sani said that timely renewal of registration of light and heavy vehicles would make vehicle licensing simple.
He added that timely registration renewal would help in the protection of lives and property of motorists and other road users in the state as well as ease transportation.
According to him, the agency has put in place a mechanism to remind each motorist to renew registration of his or her vehicle two weeks before the expiry date.
Sani said that the agency had also put measures in place to ease processing of vehicle licences by establishing area offices in seven local government areas of the state.
The local government areas include Jahun, Gwaram, Birninkudu, Babura, Birniwa and Malammadori.
He said that the area offices would serve as centres offering registration services.
“The agency is targeting a considerable number of vehicle owners who do not bother to renew registration of vehicles on time, thus risking their lives and the lives of other road users by this wrongful practice.
“The agency is also seeking to improve the quality of service offered to motorists through timely vehicle registration,” he said. (NAN)
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(Edited By Adeboye Ajayi and controlled by Ijeoma Popoola)