By Dele Ade
Federal Road Safety Corps( FRSC) has again restated that officials of the Commission do not carry guns or any other fire arms whether on patrol or any other official duty.
A statement by Bisi Kazeem, Assistant Corps Marshal, Corps Public Education Officer, FRSC Headquarters, Abuja said this clarification information has become very pertinent following the image of an operative who was captured on camera carrying fire arms in a position that suggests he was on official duty.
Part of the statement read: “The viral report should be disregarded in totality as it’s just but an old and recirculated image of an overzealous staff who posed with a rifle belonging to a sister agency’s staff in admiration and ignorance in 2018.
“The said staff has since been punished according to existing maintainance of discipline of the Corps.”
Kazeem in the statement said the Acting Corps Marshal, Dauda Ali Biu while reacting to the image that is been recirculated has stated that officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps do not currently carry arms and advise members of the public should disregard the image been recirculated.
“The public is by this publication called to desist from believing such fake image as the Corps continues in commiting itself to making the roads safer for all to use,” the statement added.