The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has refuted the rumours making the rounds that personnel of the commission have started to carry fire arms on duty, urging members of the public to disregard the image being recirculated.
In a statement on Sunday by its Assistant Corps Marshal, Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, the Acting Corps Marshal, Dauda Biu, said the commission has not started carrying guns or any other fire arms whether on patrol or any other official duty.
“This 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.
“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 statement read.
FRSC noted that the staff has since been punished according to existing maintainance of discipline of the Corps
“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,” it also stated.
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