Association of Motor Dealers of Nigeria (AMDON) in collaboration with the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has concluded plans to introduce software for detecting stolen vehicles in October.
TPrince Ajibola Adedoyin, association’s president, said in Abuja, that the implementation of the deal that the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, approved for AMDON for vehicles’ data generation and enforcement will commence by the end of October.
“We have got the approval of the IGP. He is ready to work with us to make sure that the Nigeria Police Force curbs the issue of stolen vehicles, kidnapping or any crime that has to do with vehicles,” he said.
He emphasized that 90 percent of crime has to do with vehicles, adding that hardly any crime can be successful without a vehicle.
He said: “If we have the data of where this vehicle is coming from and the government has it on its fingertip, it becomes easier” to detect criminal activities.
He noted that the association and the police are working together to produce the software that will recognize the chassis numbers of vehicles.
Adedoyin added that in collaboration with the police, AMDON has already started the issuance of highly secured ID card to all its members.
According to him, once the police insert the chassis number of the vehicle into the software in their office, it will indicate whether it is among those that have been reportedly stolen or not.
The software and data implementation, he said, will reduce the incidence of stolen vehicles in the country.
“We have already begun the implementation. We hope that tentatively before the end of October we should be able to start it. But the ID card, we have already started.
“There is a kind of partnership that we are into now with the police, with the approval of the Inspector General of Police. The association is partnering with the police to make sure that there a designated kind of ID card for every of our member that will be authenticated, and it will carry a chip that it can easily be identified, so that it could not easily be faked.
“At the same time, we have partnered with the Nigeria Police Force to make sure that there is a way that we will come up with an IT system that once it comes with a number, you will just insert the chassis number of that car and send it to the data base of stolen vehicles.
“You will get a reply if it is okay or not okay. With that, any car that comes to our notice, once they do it and comes back contrary, you know the next thing to do. We are going to sensitize all our members nationwide on this. We want to reduce drastically the issue of stolen vehicles.
“I can tell you that IGP Idris has magnanimously given us that approval and we are working towards implementing it.
“That is when we can have the data of everyone in the business. That is the only way the government can check and balance all those in this trade,” he said.
According to the AMDON boss, with such data in place, it will be easier for the government to detect those that have paid their tax, the number of cars entering the country, and the contraband.
