The Senate on Wednesday condemned the price regime of the new scheme of driver’s licence and vehicle number plates by the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC). It asked the FRSC to suspend forthwith the implementation of the new driver’s licence and vehicle number plates. The lawmakers mandated its Committee on Federal Character and Intergovernmental Affairs to conduct a public hearing on the new driver’s licence and vehicle number plates’ scheme by the FRSC. This followed a motion by Senator Dahiru Kuta (Niger East) and 19 others on “hardship occasioned by the new number plates and driver’s licence scheme of the FRSC.” Senator Kuta in his lead debate urged the Senate to note that the FRSC is a creation of the Federal road safety Commission (Establishment, etc.) Act Cap F19, laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004. He noted that FRSC enabling Act empowers the Commission to, primarily, prevent and minimize accidents on the highways and clear obstructions on any part of the highways and educate drivers, motorists and other members of the public generally on the proper use of highways. He further noted that the commission was not established principally as a revenue generating agency for the states or federal government. Kuta observed that the FRSC in recent times has embarked on frequent and arbitrary introduction and re-introduction of vehicle number plates and driver’s licences.