Kwara State Police Command announces that it begins a statewide enforcement exercise on Monday targeting vehicles with problematic number plates. According to reports, police will focus on vehicles with fake, covered, obscured, altered, defaced, unauthorized, or missing registration number plates. The move is described as part of efforts to improve security and reduce crime. Police say the enforcement follows a directive and is carried out in strict compliance with that instruction. The announcement is attributed to the command’s spokesperson, SP Adetoun Ejire Adeyemi, who made the statement in Ilorin. The exercise is expected to involve officers checking vehicles on roads across the state and acting against drivers operating vehicles with plates that fail identification or appear tampered with. The reports present the crackdown as a routine security measure aimed at ensuring proper vehicle identification and accountability, rather than a response to a specific incident. Both outlets frame the action as commencing Monday, with the police command using the exercise to deter and detect illegal or suspicious vehicle activity linked to number plate violations.