The Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter Governmental Affairs has faulted state governments that have increases the cost of the new number plates and driver’s licence introduced by the Federal Road Safety Commission by as much as 100 per cent.
The committee on Tuesday described this as exorbitant.
The actual cost of the plate number is N7,593 while the driver’s licence was put at N3,000.
But some states now sell them for N15,000 and N6,000, with the approval of the Joint Tax Board.
At the continued public hearing on the issue, the Chairman of the Senate committee, Senator Dahiru Kuta, and the other members were told by the Corps Marshal, Osita Chidoka, that the exorbitant cost was not from the FRSC.
The FRSC was also faulted by the Senate for failing to remit revenues to the government purse within 24 hours as provided in the constitution and the Act establishing it.
A member of the committee, Senator Kabiru Marafa, accused the FRSC of breaching Section 162 of the Constitution and Section 8(2) of its establishment Act by failing to remit revenues generated by the agency to the Federal Government’s treasury within 24 hours.
But Chidoka said: “It has never been possible to remit money to the Federation Account within 24 hours because we don’t even know how much money that we receive within 24 hours.
“The reality is that we can’t remit it within 24 hours.
“That is the National Assembly’s work to help us look at the law and review it.”