By Aaron Ossai
Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC.has debunked rumours that its personnel now carry firearms saying that personnel of the Commission have not started carrying guns or any other firearms whether on patrol or any other official duty.
Assistant Corps Marshall, Corps Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem in a statement said that the formation has become pertinent following the image of an operative who was captured on camera carrying firearms in a position that suggests he was on official duty.
He said the viral report should be disregarded in totality as it’s just 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.
According to him, 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 being recirculated has stated that officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps does not currently carry arms and advise that members of the public should disregard the image being recirculated.
“The public is by this publication called upon to desist from believing such fake images as the Corps continues in committing itself to making the roads safer for all to use”, he said.
