The Ekiti Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has denied reports that one of its officials was arrested by the state governor, Ayodele Fayose, for a traffic offence in the state.
The Ekiti Governor, had Friday, reportedly effected the arrest of an alleged operative of the Federal Road Safety Corps at Ikere Ekiti, for flouting traffic rule.
Fayose, who had gone to commission the Ado-Ikere-Iju dualisation and the down-town market stalls in the town, stopped his convoy at Oke –Ikere area of the town and ordered that the man be stopped and his car seized.
The road safety operative, who was identified as Mr Alabi, was driving against the traffic in his Peugeot 505 to Ikere Ekiti, had taken the left side of the road with intention to dodge the dilapidated portion of the dual carriage way, which infuriated the governor who was on that rough portion of the road.
However, in a statement, through the Ekiti Sector Commander, Ekiti State Command, Mr Stanley Chinedum, Saturday, the FRSC denied the involvement of any of its officials in the incident, in the state.
“We wish to appreciate His Excellency Governor Ayodele Fayose for accosting and eventually arresting a road traffic offender on 15th October, 2015 along Ikere Road Ado Ekiti. However, we wish to place on record that the said traffic offender from all available records is not a staff of FRSC as a regular marshal nor a volunteer, special marshal.
“The said offender could be an impersonator or rather a dismissed special marshal who is still using old sticker of special marshals. FRSC is noted for discipline and exemplary behaviour with adequate machinery to check excesses and abuses, we therefore, always inculcate in staff at all times the necessity to obey all traffic rules while on official duties and even on private engagements.
“Conclusively, we want to place on record, that the Offender arrested by the Executive Governor of Ekiti state, His Excellency, Ayodele Fayose , the said Mr Adeola Alabi is not a staff of Federal Road Safety Commission,” said the FRSC statement.
Also reacting, the Head of Media Relations and Strategy, FRSC, Bisi Kazeem said ‘the Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi, a disciplinarian, who has zero tolerance for indiscipline, ordered investigation, to our surprise, it was found that the said traffic offender was not in the service of the corps either as a regular marshal nor special. Nevertheless, he was full of praises for the Governor for arresting a traffic offender and appealed to other senior government officials to emulate this rare deed as Road safety is everybody’s business..’
