The Federal Road Safety Corps has vowed to dismiss from service any of its personnel found extorting motorists.
The Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, gave the warning in an interview with newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday.
Kazeem was reacting to the recent arrest of 37 FRSC operatives for alleged extortion of motorists on the highways.
There were reports that a team comprising the FRSC, Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission and the Department of State Services made the arrest of the erring personnel recently.
The FRSC management had in a complaint to the ICPC said the incidents of extortion were rife in six states: Kaduna, Bauchi, Abia, Rivers, Kogi and Ogun.
Kazeem, however, said the magnitude of the penalty would depend on the gravity or weight of the evidence and exhibit against personnel involved in the act.
He said: “We abhor corruptive tendencies.
“There are internal mechanisms, the Corps Marshal Monitoring Unit and Surveillance and Intelligence Unit.
“There is also zonal commanding officers unit of surveillance and monitoring, sector commanders unit, all aimed at checking excesses of marshals.
“The Corps Marshal felt that reports concerning the issue of extortion is getting alarming and didn’t want to stop at internal mechanism.”
According to Kazeem, this necessitated the collaboration with the ICPC and DSS.
“They deployed technology and made the arrest,” he said, adding that the exercise would be sustained in order to rid the corps of bad eggs.
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