FRSC sacks 62 personnel for corruption

A total of 62 personnel of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) have been sacked over corruption related issues.

The FRSC Corps Marshal, Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi, who disclosed this at a press conference in Abuja yesterday, said the 62 personnel were sacked in 2019 alone, and they comprised 14 officers and 48 marshals.

He added that many others received various degrees of punishment in accordance with the provisions of the FRSC regulations on discipline.

He also announced that a total of “172 personnel are being investigated and are to be prosecuted in the courts of law.’’

Oyeyemi said to intensify the efforts of the corps to fight against corruption and corrupt practices, the Corps was the first government agency to collaborate with the Akin Fadeyi Foundation and Mac-Arthur Foundation to launch the Flag-IT app developed for reporting cases of extortion, bribery or disservice perpetrated by any of the corps operatives.

To further check corrupt practices in the corps, he announced that the corps has launched a National Traffic Radio, 107.1 FM where dissatisfied members of the public can call in to report complaints of service failures, extortion, bribery against members of the corps.

He said corruption would always fight back as expected as mischief makers would want to make good their threats to smear the Corps with frivolous but distasting commentaries, propaganda, falsehood and harassments.