₦airaland Forum

Dis is to encourage robbery d more among dis people the attack done with gun was it not hand why dis gun

Non sense
FG has no right to do that !
FRSC was established by law and not by executive fiat. Only an amended law setting it up will authorize their use of fire arms .

Cluelessness at its peak

SO TO ASK FOR DRIVERS LICENCE NOW REQUIRES TO CARRY GUN?

Hmmm. VIO Go soon dey carry explosives too. We are in serious mess o. What do they need it for? To shoot cars or ....

Remain Boy scout to carry arms

1bkaye:
Hmmm

my
its high time i am a road safety personnel and i will till you we are nothing like the police if only you can reason with us will you will never have a problem, Road users here can testify with me have you ever had your papers complete and road safety wont let you go? unlike our sister agency the police but u will agree with me that alot of violent people will prefer to speed off rather than stop for you and we are not in the habit of going after someone in other to prevent accident, as a personnel i have been told i will be killed on the road several times by people i dont even know, i have been insulted and told how stupid i am by people am only trying to help, i have been mobbed just because the only weapon i have is my word and uniform, dont get me wrong there is a joy in doing this work when you rescue an accident victim or when you give a motorist an advice that will save his life there is this inner peace you get and that alone keeps me going. if i was not a personnel i will also be sounding like you all and personally i dont support guns in road safety but alot of personnel has died because a driver wants to be smart because he cant see a gun and you cant imagin how a nigerian will talk to you on uniform if you dont have a gun he sees you as a disturbance but i can assure you that road safety personnel wont be shooting anyhow or even put a gun at you if you can only do the right thing..............i once met a white lady being rude to me on the road because she thinks all i want to do was to extort money from her cos her nigerian husband told her so and i had to remind her that she wont act like this in her home country . so please we should all reason before we act

FRSC operatives will start wielding ak47.... oga oo

I can't believe the FRSC is given arms to enforce traffic regulations. Another ill-thought out move. I know traffic police don't bear arms and there's no reason FRSC should be made to bear arms to carry our their duties.

The FRSC are notorious for random and indiscriminate stopping of motorists without any reason other than to ask baseless and needless questions which is actually witch-hunting of motorists in the hopes of generating revenue.

Perhaps, The VIO should be armed too if every uniformed agency in the country is going to bear fire arms and next will be LASMA.

I think the FRSC should be scrapped or merged with the VIO, needless duplicity of function.

sarrki:
THE Federal Government has approved arms-bearing for the men and officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps following upsurge in violent attacks and killing of some of its operatives during legitimate duties.

 

This is coming on the sad revelation that the Corps has lost over 70 of its personnel in 2016 alone as a result of violent attacks by motorists at the course of duties on highways.

 

Corps Marshal and Chief Executive of FRSC, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, made this known on Friday in Abuja at the end of year management strategy session as a way to assess the Corps stewardship as well as ensuring effective service delivery.

He noted that the FRSC Establishment Act gives power to the corps to bear arms and that the Federal Government had earlier approved that, with about 5,000 personnel already undergoing training on firearms.

The Federal Government has however approved the recruitment of about 450 personnel to beef up the operational capacity of FRSC in prompt rescue operations and enforcement drive.

Oyeyemi said: “The Act gives power to the Corps to bear arms and 5,000 of our personnel have been trained. We are just waiting for the validation of the earlier approval.

“Sadly, within the one year, we have lost 70 personnel. It is sad to note that some killing and maiming of operatives, including one from a sister agency in close collaboration with the Corps were in the course of official duties.

“A recent occurrence was the happening in Talata Mafara, Zamfara State where a motorist ran into the Mobile Court in session, killing three operatives almost instantly while a Civil Defence operative died later as a result of injuries sustained in the dastardly act.

He, however, declared that the Corps would not give up, ensuring that the mandate of making Nigerian highways safer is achieved.

The Corps Marshal said he had since last year raised the alarm that some Nigerian motorists were becoming unusually violent, following rising cases of wilful killings of some of the Corps’ operatives on official duties.

He also revealed that at the end of week 47 of 2016, road crashes claimed the lives of 4,005 persons in Nigeria from 7,657 crashes as recorded by the Corps.

He, however, pointed out that the Corps has recorded 15 per cent reduction in road traffic crashes and 25 per cent in fatality rate, during the third quarter of 2016, saying this was an indication that the Corps is making progress in the campaigns.

He said: “For instance, as at September this year, we have achieved 77.19 per cent of the expectation in RTC reduction while 83.33 per cent was archived in respect of fatality rate. We will not only keep momentum but further accelerate achievement of goals,” he said.

He also disclosed that the Corps has sacked 66 personnel (10 officers and 56 marshals) on issues bothering on indiscipline, particularly inducement of operatives by motorists to evade arrest and outright extortion by operatives.

Oyeyemi added that 33 other personnel were had their ranks reduced or lost of seniority as part of disciplinary action on them.

Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Engineer Babachir Lawal, reaffirmed the commitment of the Federal Government in supporting FRSC in achieving its mandate of making Nigerian roads safe for the citizens.

He said the government has accordingly approved the recruitment of 4350 personnel to boost the operational capacity of the Corps.

Lawal who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Political and Economic Affairs, Ambassador Olukunle Gbangbose, said the Federal Government would ensure that FRSC is properly equipped for effective service delivery while calling on the top management of the Corps to begin to think out of the box in addressing challenges faced.


http://tribuneonlineng.com/frsc-now-bear-firearms-oyeyemi/

BUT HOW SAFE ARE OUR ROADS? MANY ARE NOT TARRED. THOSE TARRED ARE BAD. THEN YOU TURN ROUND TO ENSURE THE NON GOVERNMENT FACTORS ARE OKAY WHEN THE GOVERNMENT FAILS IN ITS OWN RESPONSIBILITY TO BUILD AND MAINTAIN GOOD ROADS. GOD DEY.

glossy6:
The ways and manners these FRSC men rush unto speeding vehicles make them vulnerable for cars to hit them. They don't act with their brains, if them like make them carry kaloshika abi wetin dem dey call that BH gun self mtcheww

kalashnikov

sakbio:
It is over due, it is a good development cos the embarrassment these people is too much, for instance there was an incident that happen in Osun, they arrested some vehicles for overloading and the motorists went back to their garage and mobilize themselves that they want to go and teach the FRSC lesson cos they know that they don't ave anything to defend themselves and they went damage most of their vehicles and those arrested from motorists and most of the staff sustained different degree of injuries. Kudos to their boss for the courage action, u can't call urself a security agency that can't defence itself, wat are u secure?. It is a very good developmet

Whatever happened to learning self-defense skills?

Very good pls give Nigerian peace corps gun o, u can't arrest a cultist with bare hands and secondly Nigerians don't fear u unless u r with a gun

harrison1234:
my
its high time i am a road safety personnel and i will till you we are nothing like the police if only you can reason with us will you will never have a problem, Road users here can testify with me have you ever had your papers complete and road safety wont let you go? unlike our sister agency the police but u will agree with me that alot of violent people will prefer to speed off rather than stop for you and we are not in the habit of going after someone in other to prevent accident, as a personnel i have been told i will be killed on the road several times by people i dont even know, i have been insulted and told how stupid i am by people am only trying to help, i have been mobbed just because the only weapon i have is my word and uniform, dont get me wrong there is a joy in doing this work when you rescue an accident victim or when you give a motorist an advice that will save his life there is this inner peace you get and that alone keeps me going. if i was not a personnel i will also be sounding like you all and personally i dont support guns in road safety but alot of personnel has died because a driver wants to be smart because he cant see a gun and you cant imagin how a nigerian will talk to you on uniform if you dont have a gun he sees you as a disturbance but i can assure you that road safety personnel wont be shooting anyhow or even put a gun at you if you can only do the right thing..............i once met a white lady being rude to me on the road because she thinks all i want to do was to extort money from her cos her nigerian husband told her so and i had to remind her that she wont act like this in her home country . so please we should all reason before we act

Doesn't it sound stupid to you for an FRSC personnel to gun-stop a motorist to check his driver's licence ?

Why do you people stop cars without any visible reason? Where in the world is it done?

Why insist on the original driver's licence when a motorist is stopped? Nigerians don't carry original documents around. Not even the vehicle's licence.

You guys are corrupt and uniformed thieves, in my opinion. That's why motorist don't stop for you.

You penalise motorist for even one break light going off when it could happen any minute without warning.

You guys should be scrapped.

What they need is common sense. FRSC is the worst set of uniform men in Nigeria. Most of their staff are so arrogant. They lack common sense. They use themselves as barrier on the high way and mounts road blocks at wrong spots. Carrying firearms will results in wanton destruction of lives on our roads. They will surely mis-use the arms. Nigerian should resist this unreasonable development. RIP to the late ones.

lezz:
I can't believe the FRSC is given arms to enforce traffic regulations. Another ill-thought out move. I know traffic police don't bear arms and there's no reason FRSC should be made to bear arms to carry our their duties.

The FRSC are notorious for random and indiscriminate stopping of motorists without any reason other than to ask baseless and needless questions which is actually witch-hunting of motorists in the hopes of generating revenue.

Perhaps, The VIO should be armed too if every uniformed agency in the country is going to bear fore arms and next will be LASMA.

I think the FRSC should be scrapped or merged with the VIP, needless duplicity of function.

Sometimes you wonder who the moronic genius' are who come up with this foolish ideas.

Scholarnwadimma:
This doesnt sound good.

Too much guns in Africa, another symbol of violence

lezz:
Doesn't it sound stupid to you for an FRSC personnel to gun-stop a motorist to check his driver's licence ?

Why do you people stop cars without any visible reason? Where in the world is it done?

Why insist on the original driver's licence when a motorist is stopped? Nigerians don't carry original documents around. Not even the vehicle's licence.

You guys are corrupt and uniformed thieves, in my opinion. That's why motorist don't stop for you.

You penalise motorist for even one break light going off when it could happen any minute without warning.

You guys should be scrapped.

Most of those guys without gun

They are violent

How much more armed

JoeBlocks:
Sometimes you wonder who the moronic genius' are who come up with this foolish ideas.

I actually saw the wooden guns last year in thier sector commands while doing inventory for them but I silently prayed it never come to fruition.

These people are corruption personified.

This country has lost the idea of governance copletely,if not road safety,civil defence,drug law,dss etc;these. Agencies are basically doing police work which is the dublication of powers.I mean the fed. Govt.should merge dis agencies nd streghten theM to function effectively.Okay imaging soldiers are on streets nd even treating cases like police nd yet we feel we are going the right way.

mansakhalifa:
kalashnikov

Thank you jare

lezz:
I actually saw the wooden guns last year in thier sector commands while doing inventory for them but I silently prayed it never come to fruition.

These people are corruption personified.

The whole nigerian polity is a den of corruption. No wonder it survival of the fittest as seen in the Jungle.

I wonder who they want to shoot with the fire arms, innocent motorists and traffic offenders.

These guys (FRSC Operatives) are our brothers, friends, sons, husbands etc.

I read the other time that a team was battered to death from bullets of yet to be identified gun men, at their check point. Is it what we pray and wish for these people, our brothers, cousins, fathers, mothers.

Yes, some of the FRSC guys are so arrogant, I agree.

We also call names to police but still call upon them #NPF at distress times... Same with FRSC.

I've gone through some comments above my post. I'm yet to see any reasonable post, rather than selfishness, continuous indiscipline and corrupte practice in our myopic thinking skills.

Nobody here will hit his/her chest to say that noon of his/her family members has never experienced kind treatment(s) from FRSC.


The other night, in Benin, at midnight some clubbing guys after flexing, got drunk, crashed and FRSC was called at that time of the night , they responded (though not timily).

So, if giving them Firearms will make our Roads safer, I support the whole idea.

I've met with some of its operatives (FRSC) in about three different occasions on the highway, first time I was booked for a particular traffic offence, which I paid at the bank. Since then,we have become friends. What matters is our approach to them at the point of apprehension.

We need these guys #Army #NPF #DSS #FRSC #NSCDC on our highways and also in our neighborhoods on daily basis.

Let all criticism be constructive.
#commonsense.

before you know it, there will be clashes between them and the police or even the military, harassments here and there of civilians. I'm of the opinion that there's no reason to arm them,they should only be concerned about the safety of cars and individuals on the road. not always looking out for those with or without their sit belts on

sarrki:
Most of those guys without gun

They are violent

How much more armed

Violently corrupt. They manufacture offence on the spot.

Can't explain how vexatious it is while driving for nearly 4 hours in the high way and you come to a bad section of the road and you see the FRSC men besieging the road and pulling you to a side asking you to produce your driver's licence, then upon getting hold of it, the ask you to step on the breaks for break lights and order you to put on the pointer lights.

After those, they ask you to show them your spare tyre and fire extinguisher and they proceed to check their expiration dates. Loooooooolz, mad men.

All these are done without any reason other than the little voices in thier head. So why would I ever stop for an FRSC when my car is faultless and I am driving within the approved speed limits?

pls they should first of all go for training on how to use firearms even some of our police men till 2day cnt maintain sane wit their ammunition

nely:
Road safety with firearms, are Nigerian policy makers drunk or we are just caused with the wrong set of people in power

We live in a sick country run by sickos, FRSC to carry firearms? so many people are gona end up dead as a result of accidental pow pow. what else are we to expect again, maybe the fed fire service will soon begin to bear arms too. May God save us from vision less pseudo clowns we have as leaders.

Wrong move by the FGN. Armed bandits can easily masquerade as FRSC officials to cause mayhem on road users.

E pain us say dey give civil defense gun,wey they are already using it to threating anyhow,They better only be armed with pistol alone if not if you give them AK, they go just kwukwu finish motorists them,even without arm they can be very violent on the road not talk of now,naija I hail oo

Why not just approve state police instead of all these useless stopgap measures

We should reject this

harrison1234:
my
its high time i am a road safety personnel and i will till you we are nothing like the police if only you can reason with us will you will never have a problem, Road users here can testify with me have you ever had your papers complete and road safety wont let you go? unlike our sister agency the police but u will agree with me that alot of violent people will prefer to speed off rather than stop for you and we are not in the habit of going after someone in other to prevent accident, as a personnel i have been told i will be killed on the road several times by people i dont even know, i have been insulted and told how stupid i am by people am only trying to help, i have been mobbed just because the only weapon i have is my word and uniform, dont get me wrong there is a joy in doing this work when you rescue an accident victim or when you give a motorist an advice that will save his life there is this inner peace you get and that alone keeps me going. if i was not a personnel i will also be sounding like you all and personally i dont support guns in road safety but alot of personnel has died because a driver wants to be smart because he cant see a gun and you cant imagin how a nigerian will talk to you on uniform if you dont have a gun he sees you as a disturbance but i can assure you that road safety personnel wont be shooting anyhow or even put a gun at you if you can only do the right thing..............i once met a white lady being rude to me on the road because she thinks all i want to do was to extort money from her cos her nigerian husband told her so and i had to remind her that she wont act like this in her home country . so please we should all reason before we act

bros to carry arms no be problem oo but the problem is your life will be more endangered, you will be more careful coz criminals too will notice you bearing nonsense in mind,you get?