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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says there is  no need for data capturing while applying for  renewal of driver’s licence.

Hyginus Omeje, the FRSC Lagos state sector commander told NAN in an interview on Saturday that the agency has departed from the old system long time ago.

“I want to use this opportunity to tell motorists that they can renew their  licence without going through capture,” he said.

“The choice of coming to capture is yours, as long as we have your data base at the initial stage and it’s already in the system, you don’t really need to be captured any longer.”

The FRSC boss said data recapturing would only happen when  people want to change their passport photographs or change some variables stated at the initial stage in the data.

“The whole essence of renewal is to update your records. You might have changed your residential address and all other variables except date of birth which is constant.

“And it is possible that somewhere somehow you had an accident that has given you mark or scars on your face that has not been there before; if you don’t do the update, you may be embarrassed when you go to the embassy.

“We have 55,412 uncollected licences across our stations in Lagos state. It is unfortunate that people do not come to collect their licences.

“We produced 48, 423 out of which 14,323 were fresh; 33,899 were renewed and 199 were re-issued as a result of loss or damage.

“The only challenge we are facing now is the collection of these licences because we have so many of them in our various centres.

“Not because they have not been produced but the applicants are not coming to collect them.”

Omeje said Lagos residents can call 08150654567 in case of a delay in issuance of the driver licences .

He said drivers can now renew their licences for N10,350 for a five-year duration while three-years licence costs N6,350.