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FRSC patrol team recalled for violating rules

 

By Ezurike Ugochukwu

A team of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) operating along Ikorodu-Sagamu road has been recalled to Lagos.

This is coming after a driver of a Honda  Odessy  vehicle was seen in a viral video carrying on his bonnet one of the road FRSC officials

Meanwhile, the Corps Marshal of FRSC Boboye Oyeyemi has ordered for immediate prosecution of the driver of the vehicle

A statement by Mr. Bisi Kazeem, Assistant Corps Marshal, Corps Public Education Officer, FRSC, said that the patrol team of the FRSC had stopped the erring driver for violating the seatbelt use rule, but he attempted to evade arrest.

FRSC officials on a car bonnet

The incident occurred during a special joint patrol operations targeted at enforcing the Presidential Task Force directives on physical distancing and overloading amongst passengers to curb further spread of the coronavirus.

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The statement emphasised that Oyeyemi expressed the disappointment over the development and had ordered the entire team to be recalled to Lagos State Sector Command for investigation and appropriate disciplinary actions in line with the corps’ regulations.

The erring driver would immediately be prosecution in a court of competent jurisdiction, maintained that the corp’s operational guidelines didn’t allow personnel to stand in front of any vehicle to effect arrest at the expense of their own safety, while stopping the vehicle.

“For emphasis, a staff does not need to commit suicide while stopping an offender that is already on a suicide mission, because every arrest of an offender is expected to be done within safe and professional limits in line with their training and operational guidelines and not to unnecessarily put their own lives in danger while attempting to arrest a fleeing offender.

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“That is why the corps has been deploying technology to track all cases of absconding recalcitrant drivers of this nature and bring them to justice.”

Kazeem however warned motorists to note that the above scenario was not a guarantee for drivers to continue to disobey traffic laws and exhibit such dastardly acts that put the lives of law enforcement agents at risk.

He pointed out that the corps would utilise every legal option within its powers to arrest and prosecute the absconding dangerous driver who having realised his offence, abandoned the vehicle and escaped.

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