The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has declared that its personnel have not started carrying guns or any other fire arms whether on patrol or any other official duty.
The spokesman of the FRSC, Mr. Bisi Kazeem, said the information became necessary following the image of an operative who was captured on camera carrying fire arms in a position that suggested he was on official duty.
Kazeem said the viral report should be disregarded in totality as it was 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.
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The said staff was said to ahve since been punished according to existing maintenance of discipline of the Corps.
The Acting Corps Marshal, Dauda Ali Biu while reacting to the image, Kazeem said, had stated that officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps did not currently carry arms and advised members of the public to disregard the image recirculated.
“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.
