Read the press statement below...
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has issued a statement to
dissociate itself from the rumours making rounds that the Corps has
distributed arms to its Officers and Men, and calls on Nigerians to
disregard such claims as there is no basis of truth in it.
In a statement issued by Bisi Kazeem, the Head Media
Relations and Strategy of the Corps, he clarified that the Corps Marshal
of FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi was misquoted when he decried the number of his
staff that were killed by errant motorists avoiding arrests, which he
said would have been avoided if the Corps were to bear arms.
He further stressed that even though the Operatives of the Corps have
undergone regular arms training at different intervals from 1992, and
more recently too, the Corps has no plan to include it as a part of the
operations at the moment.
With reference to the amendment of the FRSC Establishment Acts of 2007,
which permits road traffic managers to bear arms in the same manner
other sister agencies do, Kazeem stated that it has never been the
priority of the Corps under the leadership of past and present Corps
Marshals to implement it.
He concluded that it was pictures of Officials of the Corps that had
undergone arms training that the same mediums misquoting the Corps
Marshal are using to support the claim that the Corps now bears arms.
The Corps Marshal used the opportunity to call on motorists to obey
traffic regulations and desist from harming operatives of the Corps who
are only out to ensure that road crashes are reduced drastically.
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