Our personnel have not started carrying firearms – FRSC

By KEMI KASUMU

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has debunked report in circulation that its personnel have started carrying firearms, dismissing such report as mere rumour.

The Corps, according to a statement by its Public Education Officer, Assistant Corps Mashal Bisi Kazeem, dated 3rd September, 2022 and copy of which was sent to The DEFENDER, informed the general public that its personnel have not started carrying guns or any other firearms “whether on patrol or any other official duty”.

This information, ACM Kazeem said, 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.

Making clarifications he cited what could best be described as mischief makers at work re-circulating an old photograph of an overzealous officer, whose case was already long treated.

“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 maintenance of discipline of the Corps.

“The  Acting Corps Marshal, Dauda Ali Biu while reacting to the image that is been re-circulated has stated that officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps does  not currently carry arms  and advise members of the public should disregard the image been re-circulated.

“The public is by this publication called to desist from believing such fake image as the Corps continues in committing itself to making the roads safer for all to use,” he said.