The fraud going on in the Ikoyi(Sura) office of the Drivers License is gradually turning to a hydra headed monster.
The fraud going on in the Ikoyi(Sura) office of the Drivers License is gradually turning to a hydra headed monster.
I applied for a drivers license on the 4th of June 2010 and the fraud started from the application.
I was asked to pay N5000 as the application fee and when i checked the receipt given to me all I saw was a N3040 written on it.
On inquiry I was told that everybody pays and so should make no fuss. I complained to no avail.Next stage was for them to direct me to the VIO office tucked a good 1km away in the streets of Lagos for an eye test.I went there for the test and on getting there was also given a form by the tester.Next thing I know he marked all the relevant sections as being passed by me and told me the test is over and that I should just drop ''something'' for coke.When I insisted on the test he said there was no light to conduct the test after which I gave him a 100 naira. On getting back to the License office I was told by some of my fellow applicants that I should not have gone but would have tipped the Road safety officials in charge at the photograph capture point.
My photograph was captured that very day and up till now 1st of September 2010(good three months) I have been going to the Office every week for the License only for them to tell me it's not ready.
I have it on good authority that if you pay extra your license comes out faster and to make matters worse the officials at the office have suddenly created a toll at the gate for drivers to pay before they can park their cars on the premise.All they do is tell you that it(toll) was created by the Lagos state government.I pity myself and a whole lot of other Lagosians that are being good citizens by going to the office to do the right thing.I could have given some money to a tout and ''pronto'' a license would have been given to me the next day.I wonder where these license come out from since they at the license office claim these are fakes but fake as they are I could still present them in banks for my transactions, police check point and other legal documentation without no hassles.
It's a pity that despite the the mindset of some good Nigerians to do the right thing and make a better nation some unscrupulous elements are hell bent on turning the nation into a jungle where anything goes.
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