The Corp Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Mr Boboye Oyeyemi, has officially disclaimed an alleged fake Corp officer, one Mr Adeola Alabi, just as he acknowledged the state governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose who accosted and eventually arrested him along Ikere road, Ado Ekiti on Saturday.
Reacting to the report, Oyeyemi, through the Head of Media Relations and Strategy of FRSC, Bisi Kazeem, also reacted that the Corps Marshal, a disciplinarian, who has zero tolerance for indiscipline called for immediate investigation and it was discovered that the said traffic offender was not in the service of the corps either as a regular marshal nor special. He further appealed to other senior government officials to emulate the rare deed of the governor as road safety is everybody’s business.
While appreciating the governor in discovering the traffic offender, the Sector’s Commander, Ekiti State Command, Mr Stanley Chinedum, however, revealed that the said traffic offender from all available records is not a staff of FRSC as neither a regular marshal nor a volunteer special marshal.
Chindedum further stated that the said offender could be an impersonator or rather a dismissed special marshal who is still using old sticker of special marshals. He said: “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.
He, however, emphasised that the command puts on record that the offender arrested by the executive governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose, the said Mr Adeola Alabi is not a staff of Federal Road Safety Commission.