The Ogun State Police Command has warned politicians and their agents who are in the habit of using political party stickers as number plates on vehicles to desist or risk having such vehicles being impounded.
This warning was contained in a statement issued on Tuesday by the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, and obtained by Tropic Reporters correspondent in Abeokuta.
He said the command has observed with concern that some politicians have cultivated the habit of covering their vehicles number plates with the stickers of their various political parties “thereby making it difficult for security agents to identify the registration number of such vehicles.”
Oyeyemi said the practice is inconsistent with the best practices allover the world, and it’s not going to be tolerated here in the state.
The statements read:
“The Ogun state Police Command has observed with concern that in recent time, some politicians have been in the habit of covering their vehicles number plates with the stickers of their various political parties thereby making it difficult for security agents to identify the registration number of such vehicles.
“This practice is inconsistent with the best practices allover the world, and it’s not going to be tolerated here in Ogun state.
“Every vehicle needs to be identified with its number plate, and for anybody to cover such number plates means that the person is having a criminal intention.
“The Command is hereby using this medium to warn those involved in this practice to desist from it henceforth, as standing order has been given to Area commanders and DPOs to clamp down on such violators.
“There is nowhere in the road traffic act, where the sticker of political party or any other sticker is allowed to be used in place of number plates. Therefore, anybody caught in such act will be dealt with in accordance with the law.
“To be warned is to be armed.”
