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FRSC Reacts To Viral Video Of An Attack By A Naked Keke NAPEP Rider On Its Officer (VIDEO)
The Federal Road Safety Corps FRSC has reacted to a recent viral video. In the video, some of its officers were seen clashing with a tricycle rider in Benin City, Edo State. The incident happed on Saturday, July 18.
The video showed how a man stripped naked and attacked the FRSC officers. The official, in turn, hit him repeatedly after he held on to their patrol vehicle.
In the statement released this morning, FRSC said the tricycle rider resisted arrest by going naked. And that he even attacked one of its officers who in turn applied “commensurate force” during the attack.
The corps vowed to ensure that the erring tricycle rider is prosecuted. This the corps said is to serve as a deterrent to others. This is especially to those who might want to attack its personnel in future.
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Read excerpts from the statement by the FRSC below.’
The Federal Road Safety Corps has noted with dismay the unruly, defiant and rebellious attack that resulted into an unprecedented degree of damage to both FRSC personnel detailed on patrol operations and the patrol vehicle by a tricycle operator in Benin, Edo State.
The tricycle rider was arrested in Benin, along Benin/Sapele road for driving against traffic. He went berserk at the point of arrest, stripped himself naked, and started throwing obstacles on both personnel and the patrol vehicle At a point, he dragged the patrol operatives in uniform. Viral Video
During the attack, the man tore the staff’s uniform and not only damaged the windscreen of the patrol car, but disfigured the bonnet and other body parts with mud and stone.
The Corps wishes to register its displeasure at the incessant abuse of its personnel and damage to its property across its formations nationwide by unruly people and warns that this, like other unwarranted attacks, is highly unacceptable and the Corps will do everything within its legal strength to ensure that this act does not go without due punishment under the law.
It is also disheartening that a section of the motoring public could criticize the Corps personnel who in self-defence, applied some commensurate force on the criminal in question in order to restrain him from the further attack on the unarmed personnel and damage to the patrol vehicle.
The Corps Marshal, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, however, commends the patriotic citizens that assisted in arresting the criminal and condemned his actions. This shows that some Nigerians will always stand by the truth and nothing but the truth.
The Corps Marshal wishes to remind members of the public that law enforcement agents serve the common interest of the general public and deserve to be respected and not humiliated in the course of their duty.”
