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'no Plan To Carry Arms For Now' - FRSC by FavoredGuy: 4:15pm On Dec 05, 2016 |
The Federal Road Safety Corps
(FRSC) on Monday urged the
public to ignore reports going
round that the corps had started
distributing and mandating its
personnel to carry arms.
Mr Bisi Kazeem, FRSC Head of
Media Relations and Strategy, told
the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
that the rumour was being
circulated by mischievous
elements seeking to provoke
disorder in the society
Kazeem said that some
“irresponsible” people took a
recent statement by the Corps
Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi, out of
context to suit their agenda.
He said the Corps Marshal was
only lamenting the recent
findings that 70 marshals lost
their lives this year alone to some
reckless motorists and was
misquoted.
“The Corps Marshal only
stipulated that such a high
number of loses could have been
avoided if FRSC personnel were
carrying arms as allowed by the
law.
“But, he quickly added that there
is no immediate plan to
implement the law that permits
the officials to carry arms.
“It is unfortunate that some
wicked people now took that to
mean that he said officials are
now being armed; it is a figment
of their imagination .” he said.
Kazeem said the FRSC boss was
misquoted based on the rumour
making round on the social
media.
He said people even circulated a
picture that depicted some road
safety officials being drilled by the
Nigerian Army on how to handle
firearms.
He said the picture was dug out
from trainings that took place
years ago to make it seem as if it
was part of a purportedly new
arrangement to arm the officials.
Kazeem said the corps had been
undergoing such training on
regular intervals since 1992
during the administration of
former President Ibrahim
Babangida.
“We have never put the exercise
as part of the general practice of
our operation and we have no
plans of implementing it in the
nearest future.”
The spokesperson said an
amendment to the FRSC Act in
2007 granted the road traffic
managers the power to bear arms
like the police and other security
agencies.
He, however, said that previous
corps marshals of the FRSC did not
prioritise its implementation.
(NAN). Source; vanguardngr.com |
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