FRSC Denies Plans To Use Sharia Law To Punish Traffic Offenders To Reduce Road Crashes

FRSC denies plans to introduce Sharia Law to prosecute traffic offenders to reduce road crashes in the country.

Road Safety Corps notes that it is neither a religious nor sectional organisation, but a Federal Government Agency.

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has debunk rumors currently making the rounds about the agencies’ intention to introduce religious law, Sharia, to enforce traffic rules and to prosecute traffic offenders.

Bauchi Sector Commander, Yusuf Abdullahi, had on Thursday called for the application of Sharia law to prosecute traffic offenders to stem road crashes in the country.

However, the agency noted that it is neither a religious nor sectional organisation, but a Federal Government Agency established with a mandate that is guided by the provisions of an establishment Act.

In a statement signed by Assistant Corps Marshal, Bisi Kazeem, the Corps Public Education Officer, the agency said :

“The Federal Road Safety Corps wishes to dissociate itself from a baseless and unfounded opinion currently published on different news platforms, linking the Corps to seeking the introduction of Sharia Law to compliment existing extant regulations on enforcement of traffic rules and prosecution of offenders. The public is to note that the entire statement does not in anyway, reflect the position of the Federal Road Safety Corps.”

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“The Corps Marshal, Dauda Ali Biu has recalled with immediate effect, the Sector Commander to the National Headquarters Abuja, for necessary administrative action because the Sector Commander through the quoted statements has breached the FRSC regulations and the Standard Operating Procedures

“Without any reservation, it is key to inform the general public that the Federal Road Safety Corps is a Government Agency with statutory responsibilities for road safety administration in Nigeria and sensitive to the country’s multi-religious as well as heterogeneous ethnic composition.

“By this very fact, it is important to clearly posit that the Corps is neither a religious nor sectional organisation, but a Federal Government Agency established with a mandate that is guided by the provisions of an establishment Act; and not a Sharia, Mosaic, customary, canon or any other law whatsoever that contradicts the provisions of it’s establishment Act, or the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

“Our lead agency role is shielded in our strict compliance with established regulations duly passed by the National Assembly. As such, the public is humbly called to disregard the entire content of the opinion as published because it is outrightly baseless, unfounded and does not apply in our operations and service to the Nigerian people.”

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