FRSC Boss, Boboye Oyeyemi.
From dealing with daily traffic snarls and potholes to unruly drivers in rickety vehicles with expired documents, Nigeria’s highway patrol officers have a lot on their plate.
At the same time, they have to face the risks from armed robbers who attack unsuspecting road users idling in monster traffic jams.
But an increase in crime on the roads has sparked fresh debate over whether members of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) should be allowed to carry firearms.
The chief marshal of the FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi, has said some 70 operatives were either shot dead by robbers or knocked down by hit-and-run drivers in 2016.
Those deaths would have been prevented if his operatives had guns, he claimed.
FRSC spokesman Bisi Kazeem said officials were legally entitled…
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