THE Federal Road Safety Corps, has recovered two stolen vehicles in Calabar and the suspect now in police custody.
The Vehicles, both Toyota Highlanders, were stolen on different occasions in Ibadan and Aba, and on different dates.
The Corps Public Education Officer, Mr Bisi Kazeem, in a statement on Friday in Abuja, said the vehicles were recovered through the help of the National Vehicle Identification Scheme (NVIS), which showed disparities in the names of the registered owners and the suspects who came to register the same vehicles in their own names.
Kazeem, said the NVIS desk Officer detected the first Toyota Highlander was registered in the name of Tobechukwu Okeke, with plate number KSF533AC, chassis number JTEHF21A410031320.
According to him, the vehicle which was alleged to have been stolen in 2014 at Ibadan was only discovered on the 24th of July 2017 when the suspected buyer, Mrs Chika Andaline Onyeama, with phone came to reregister the same vehicle with the same chassis number already registered to Tobechukwu Okeke.
He added that the second Toyota Highlander which was registered in the name of Omadewu Jeff with plate number YAB993BX, chassis number JTEEP21A040047924 was stolen in Aba in the month of April 2017, but discovered on 21st July 2017 when the suspected buyer came to register it, and recovered on 25th July 2017.
Kazeem noted that the Acting Sector Commander, Calabar Sector, RS6.2, Lucky O Ugenlo, disclosed that the suspected buyer of the second vehicle, Simon Peter had a plate number (KTA766GS) already assigned to the vehicle.
In view of the successful recovery of the vehicles now in Police custody with the suspected buyers, the Corps Marshal emphasised the need for every vehicle to have a comprehensive registration papers.
He added that it is only in this manner that they are easily recovered when stolen.
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