The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has again debunked rumour that its personnel have begun carrying firearms.
FRSC spokesman Assistant Corps Marshal Bisi Kazeem said in a statement on Saturday that the image from where the rumour began is an old recycled one.
“Federal Road Safety Corps wishes to inform the general public that personnel of the Commission have not started carrying guns or any other fire arms whether on patrol or any other official duty,” the statement said.
“This information has become very pertinent following the image of an operative who was captured on camera carrying firearms 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 said staff has since been punished according to existing maintainance of discipline of the Corps.”
The statement added that the acting Corps Marshal, Dauda Biu, while reacting to the image, said that officials of the FRSC do not carry arms.
Biu advised members of the public to disregard the image being recirculated.
