FRSC Officials Face Mob Attack in Anambra State

After a recent arrest attack that led o the attack on officers of a patrol team of the Federal Road Safety Corps at Igbo-Ukwu, Anambra, several arrest as been made by the Anambra Police Command in connection to the attack.
The mob attack of the official of the Federal Road Safety (FRSC) was said to have been as a result of his request for a bribe.

Modesty Vitus M Ezenwa, a facebook user took to his timeline to post the visuals of the scene and went on to narrate that the officers “asked for bribe”.

He (Modesty) posted photos and a video footage of the incident which reportedly occurred in Nnewi, Anambra State on Friday, April 14 showed one of the road safety officials being held by his belt, a replica of how men of the Nigerian police force hold criminals.

Ezenwa Wrote: Road Safety officials disgraced in Nnewi today. Beaten and humiliated, they ran away leaving two unlucky colleagues behind at the mercy of the mob. Cause: they asked for bribe. The stubborn cyclist refused to offer. They wanted to ‘arrest ‘ the cycle, the owner refused. Then kataka burst!

Happening life in Awka etiti. I witnessed a comic disaster. Federal Road Safety Corps officials’ attempt to receive bribe from a cyclist and the cyclist blunt refusal to part with a kobo led to an avoidable scenario. Road Safety officials were beaten up by untrained bloody civilians. I stood bye and watched In Amusement

“The stubborn cyclist refused to offer,” he wrote. “They wanted to ‘arrest ‘the cycle, the owner refused.”

He noted that some officials ran away, leaving two of their colleagues behind at the mercy of the mob.

He further noted that some officials of the commission ran away, leaving two of their colleagues behind at the mercy of the mob.

Mr Bisi Kazeem, spokesman of the FRSC in a press statement on Wednesday said the suspects were arrested by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Anambra State Police Command.

According to him, the three are suspected to be part of the mob that attacked the FRSC personnel after an offending commercial motorcyclist fell while trying to evade arrest by the team.

Earlier, there was speculation on the Internet that the FRSC patrol team was mobbed for allegedly demanding bribe at Ichida also in Anambra.

But Kazeem issued a statement, dismissing the rumour as incorrect.

“The true position is that an offending Okada man who sighted our personnel on normal patrol suddenly turned to escape arrest and fell in the process.

“His fall attracted sympathy from miscreants and other Okada men who then seized the opportunity to mob the personnel,” he said.

Kazeem said efforts were being made to apprehend “the other miscreants and ‘Okada’ riders for prosecution”.

Corps Marshal of the FRSC, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, while reacting to the arrest commended the Inspector-General of Police and the Police Command in Anambra for their prompt intervention to ensure that the perpetrators of the act are dealt with under the confines of the law.

Oyeyemi enjoined them to fish out others at large for prosecution so as to serve as a deterrent to potential offenders.

“The Corps Marshal said the FRSC would continue to cooperate with other sister agencies in the discharge of its statutory
duties.

“He added that the Corps would no longer tolerate the harassment, assault and victimisation of its personnel on flimsy excuses and trivial issues,” Kazeem said.