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FRSC Vows to
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FRSC Vows to Dismiss Personnel Engage in Extortion of
Motorists
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has vowed to dismiss from
service any of its personnel found extorting motorists.
Corps Public Education Officer, Mr Bisi Kazeem gave the warning
in an interview with pressmen in Abuja on Wednesday.
Kazeem was reacting to the recent arrest of 37 FRSC operatives
for alleged extortion of motorists on the highways.
There were reports that a team comprising the FRSC, ICPC and DSS
made the arrest ofthe erring personnel recently.
The FRSC management had in a complaint to ICPC said the
incidents of extortion were rife in six states; Kaduna, Bauchi,
Abia, Rivers, Kogi and Ogun.
Kazeem, however, said that the magnitude of the penalty would
depend on the gravity or weight of the evidence and exhibit against
personnel involved in the act.
“We abhor corruptive tendencies.
“There are internal mechanisms, the Corps Marshal Monitoring
Unit and Surveillance and Intelligence Unit.
“There is also zonal commanding officers unit of surveillance
and monitoring, sector commanders unit, all aimed at checking
excesses of marshals.
“The corps marshal felt that reports concerning the issue of
extortion is getting alarming and didn’t want to stop at internal
mechanism.’’
According to him, this necessitated the collaboration with the
ICPC and DSS.
“They deployed technology and made the arrest,’’ he said, adding
that the exercise would be sustained in order to rid the corps of
bad eggs.
Mr Bisi Kazeem
Corps Public Education Officer