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Federal Government Commences Pilot Phase Of Vehicle Registry Platform In Lagos
The federal government has commenced the pilot phase of its national vehicle registry (VREG) platform in Lagos.
Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, budget and national planning, announced this during a sensitisation seminar on understanding the process of VREG in Abuja yesterday.
Ahmed said the pilot phase kicked off at the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Kirikiri lighter terminal (KLT) command.
The VREG was established by the ministry of finance, budget and national planning in collaboration with NCS in April 2020 to curb import duty evasion and smuggling of cars into Nigeria.
According to Ahmed, a recent study showed that in a space of one year (between October 2018 and September 2019), Nigeria recorded over N1.8 trillion value of used vehicle importation.
She said the platform was launched to address this challenge of illegal importation, and utilisation of vehicles to commit crimes in the country.
She explained that the platform would be used for information interchange on nationwide vehicle registration, ownership, history and proper road traffic regulation and violation enforcement between key government agencies.
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