By Abdul Aji.
At a time civil servants in Kogi State are faced with delayed salary payment the Federal Roads Safety Corporation, FRSC, and the Kogi State Vehicle Inspection Officers have targeted their revenue generation on the state workers.
According to a Director of Finance and Accounts with one of the Kogi State Government agencies, name withheld, the VIO and FRSC officers station themselves on lanes leading to offices such as Ganaja Road and Okene/Kabba road in the morning when workers are going to work where every vehicle stopped must be booked for one offence or the other.
After close of work, the same FRSC officers and VIOs would station themselves on routes such as the one leading from Government House to Ganaja junction via Kasuwa Guest Inn where they stop motorists who must be found wanting in the one or two of the 37 offences of the FRSC.
The Graphic investigation reveals that these officers would only occupy the routes when workers are going to work or returning and would have nothing to do with taxis and vehicles travelling through the state, as their targets are private vehicle owners within the state capital who are mostly civil servants.
A staff of Kogi State Board of Internal Revenue who do not want to be mentioned told The Graphic that the BIR always lose their revenue targets as a result of the over-jealousness of the semi-literate VIOs who always treat motorists as culprits, whether such vehicle owner has up to date document or not.
