By Polycarp Onwubiko
DAILY
SUN Sunday June 16, 2024 came out with a stunning headline:
"Anxiety,
frustration as FRSC fails to issue Nigerians driver’s license" with the
picture of
Federal
Road Service Commission (FRSC) checking driver’s license; a country that goes
with hypocrisy and insincerity in all the sectors of governance.
When
there was sanity in Nigeria, Regional Governments and later State Governments
were responsible for the issuance of vehicles driver’s license with vehicle
number plates. But when the agents of ultra conservative governance woke up
from deep slumber, they centralized virtually every sector of governance
ostensibly for ethnic cum religious calculations.
The Cabal leveraged on the fraudulently
crafted military Decreed 1999 constitution supposedly under Amendments to
pander to the preferences, venality and inanities of the "Fulani Feudal
Oligarchy and Northern Political Emirate the" who insisted that Nigeria
would continue to be piloted in line with their ethnoreligious irredentism and
chauvinism where the South likes it or not.
Otherwise
what prevented the past and present federal government from implementing the
Steve Orosanye Report on merger of MDAs and outright scrapping of overlapping
and clearly unnecessary agencies, parastatals and ministries which state
governments are in the position to operate effectively and efficiently?
Federal
Road Safety Commission, FRSC since its establishment had been criticized by
people who agitated fruitlessly to return the issuance of vehicles driver’s
license and plate numbers to the state governments which operate Board of
Internal Revenue. The bungling and financial malfeasance that had accompanied
the centralization of motor driver's license with vehicle number plates has
been unimaginable and scandalous yet the past presidents plugged their ears
since they were in 'covenant' to maintain the Centralized contraption which has
led to the collapse of virtually all the sectors of governance.
In
management courses, research had shown that "over centralization creates
inefficiency and bungling". Now due to inefficiency and bungling coupled
with alleged inadequate financing of MDAs, the management of FRSC confessed
that the agency is severely hand-capped to repair the damaged, faulty and
ageing machines but is poorly provided for in the annual budgetary provisions.
Then if it so, why cannot the agency be scrapped and issuance of vehicles
drivers license with vehicle number plates returned to the state governments?
According
to Sunday Sun news report a frustrated person who could not get his vehicle
licence renewed said: "....describing the experience as frustrating and
time-consuming, Oseni said that it is really disturbing to find out that the
Federal Road Safety Commission performance as far as the issuance of driver’s license
is concerned has remained as ineffective as it was decades ago.
“It is
very shocking to find out that an agency like the FRSC will remain at this
level of inefficiency in an era where technology has not only simplified the
processes of doing things but also has made things much faster,” he wondered.
My
comment: Although I have said something about the hopeless country we are in
which insist on operating the fundamentally fraudulent and fundamentally flawed
Federal-Unitary contraption referred to as the 1999 constitution deceptively
under the supposed "amendments" ostensibly to suit the Caliphate
Colonialists that have held this country comatose and on the Road to Golgotha,
the sane and sanitized approach is to scrap FRSC and return vehicle licence and
number plates to the Board of Internal Revenue of the state governments.
Polycarp Onwubiko, political analyst writes from Awka,
Anambra State
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