Listen to this
Lagos Nigeria early 1980s:
Traffic congestion is a major problem so the government decides that it needs to take at least half the cars off the road ............ not a problem for Nigeria .... just make it illegal to drive a car with an odd numberplate on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday ........... and make it illegal to drive a car with an even numberplate on a Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday ........ Sundays ? - anything goes
Congestion problem solved or so you'd think but .............
Nigerians are resourceful people so ....... the less clever ones buy another car with an even numberplate to use when their odd number-plated car can't be used....... but the really clever ones .... and that's 90% ...........
just buy another numberplate ........
Traffic congestion is the same but vehicle numbers and sales of number-plates increase, lining the pockets of the car dealers and plate makers who, coincidentally, are the government officials who made the laws in the first place
True story IIRC