MMA Plate Number Meaning: Oru-East, Imo
The MMA plate number is registered in Oru-East Local Government Area, Imo. Those three letters record where the vehicle was first put on the road — not who drives it, and not where it is today.
Oru East uses MMA. About 195,743 people were recorded there in 2006 over 136 km², some 1,439 to the square kilometre. Reading a Nigerian plate starts with the letters, and a directory can place them — the rest of the plate is a serial that identifies only the vehicle.
MMA Plates We Have Checked
Plates carrying the MMA code that our own checks returned data for, most recent first. The make and the colour are shown exactly as the record gave them.
| Plate | Make | Colour | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA-128AA | Toyota Carina E S/Car | Custom | |
| MMA-174AA | Toyota Carina | Custom | |
| MMA-236AA | Toyota Camry S/C | Custom | |
| MMA-305AA | Toyota Sequoia Jeep | Custom | |
| MMA-419AA | Honda Accord | Custom | |
| MMA-507AA | Mits. Lancer Saloon | Custom | |
| MMA-853AA | TOYOTA COROLLA | CUSTOM | |
| MMA-956AA | TOYOTA AVALON | CUSTOM | |
| MMA-111AA | Toyota Camry | Black | |
| MMA-222AA | TOYOTA CORONA | BLUE | |
| MMA-123AA | Honda Accord | Custom | |
| MMA-987AA | FORD EXPLORER | CUSTOM |
No holder name appears here, and none ever will: the Federal Road Safety Corps does not release registration holders to the public, so neither do we.
What MMA Plates Look Like
Counted from the 12 MMA plates we hold. It describes what we have seen, not the vehicle register — and the colour is the paint on the car, which is a different question from the colour of the plate itself. What plate colours mean
The District Behind MMA
- Local Government Area
- Oru-East
- State
- Imo
- Headquarters
- Omuma
- Population
- 195,743 (2006)
- Area
- 136 km²
Population and area describe the local government area itself and come from public census and geographic data, not from the plate register.
What the MMA Code Does and Does Not Tell You
A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so MMA places the paperwork in Oru-East. It does not follow the car afterwards: a vehicle sold across state lines keeps its plate until it is re-registered, which is why a MMA plate away from Imo is a question for the seller rather than a finding in itself.
The letters also say nothing about the holder, the model or the history of the vehicle. Colours and special series are a separate system, explained on the code hub; what the car itself has been through — auction lots, damage, mileage at sale — is recorded against its VIN and travels with the car even when the plate changes.
Questions about the MMA plate number
What does the MMA plate number mean?
MMA is the registration code of Oru-East Local Government Area in Imo. A vehicle wearing it was registered there; the three digits after the letters are its serial inside that LGA, and the last two letters are the series.
Which state is a MMA plate number from?
Imo. The code identifies the local government area — Oru-East — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.
Codes Next to MMA in Imo
Codes either side of MMA in the Imo directory.
Have a whole MMA plate, not just the code?
The lookup takes the full plate and returns the local government area behind it. For the history of the vehicle — auction records, damage, mileage and photographs — check it by VIN.