AdminThe Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi has directed immediate withdrawal of the number plate with inscription “Ego-obala” which in Igbo language means blood money.
According to a statement issued on Thursday, signed by the FRSC Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, the Corps Marshal, gave the withdrawal directive having discovered the true meaning of the word in Igbo language considering the negative undertone and impression such could create in the public.
The statement reads, ” The attention of the Federal Road Safety Corps has been drawn to a vehicle seen with a fancy number plate with the inscription ‘Egoobala’, an Igbo word that connotes blood money.
“This is to inform the public that the Corps Marshal, Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi has directed the immediate withdrawal of the number plate, having known the true meaning of the word in Igbo language.
“While assuring the public of the Corps’ commitment to safer roads, fuller lives, the motoring public should be assured of our commitment to ensure due diligence in all our processes and procedures in keeping with our corporate mandate towards effective service delivery,” Kazeem stated.
Some Nigerians who reacted to that, queried why FRSC could go ahead and issue such a number plate with such inscription.
“How can someone go ahead and issue this plate number at the office of the FRSC?”
“Don’t the FRSC have translator?” another probed.
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