The Integrity Youth Alliance, an organisation that has been monitoring the development trends in the Nigeria Police Force for over 15 years, has said that the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) is not a revenue-generating outfit as far as the Electronic Central Motor Registry is concerned.
Reacting to a press statement by the “one man” Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), the board chairman of the Alliance, Adewole Kehinde said that the token processing fees on the eCMR go to the Federal Government account via REMITA and not the Nigeria Police as made believe by HURIWA.
“It is a shame that the self-acclaimed Human Rights activist could say that “implementation of CMRIS is another attempt to set up ‘money making machine’ for politicians and police bosses.”
“We want to educate the so-called HURIWA National Coordinator, that the Central Motor Registry (CMR) was founded more than 60 years ago as a key instrument for maintaining data about motor vehicles.
“It is on record that the Nigeria Police digitalised the CMR on 1st January 2023 sequel to the inauguration of the rejuvenated Central Motor Registry (CMR) Unit and flag-off of the first phase of the Stolen Vehicle Report Portal.
“The mandatory registration of vehicle information by the CMR introduced about seven decades ago and done manually was fraught with challenges which the CMRIS would now address.
Also, the digitalised CMRIS would effectively serve the purpose of obtaining additional information from members of the public about stolen vehicles and populating the stolen vehicle database.
“This is to ensure that vehicles to be registered by the CMR are not stolen and would aid investigation of stolen vehicles and vehicle-associated incidents.
“It is on record that the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) has directed the discontinuation of manual processing and issuance of all CMR documents/certificates and a migration to the digitalised NPF CMR platform.
“We call on the general public to take note that all CMR certificates hitherto issued by the Nigeria Police Force are no longer valid and are no longer recognised forthwith, therefore, members of the public are urged to cooperate with the police as the digitalised CMR platform will provide motor vehicle information for robust and proactive actions.
“This is particularly in crime prevention, detection, investigation, prosecution, and efforts made at enhancing national security,” he stated.
