Oct. 20, 2025
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Lagos Sector Command, booked 1,890 persons for attempting to corrupt marshals from January to September.
The Sector Commander, Corps Commander Kehinde Hamzat, disclosed this at the command’s Ember Months Campaign 2025 media conference on Monday.
The campaign had the theme: ‘ Take Responsibility for Your Safety: Stop Distracted Driving’.
Hamzat said that the command booked 803, 531 and 556 persons in the first, second and third quarters of 2025, respectively.
“Over the years, there have been complaints that road safety corps is a corrupt organisation.
“We have bad eggs among us but we should also understand that officers are recruited from the public,” he said.
He disclosed that FRSC officers rejected a total of N849,000 as bribe from the first to the third quarters of the year.
“January recorded N88,600, February, N102,400; March, N104,300; April, N32,500; May, N167,500; June, N47,000; July, N26,500; August, N148,000, and September – N132,200, all totalling N849, 000,” he said.
The FRSC boss said that the command recorded 270 cases of overloading in the first quarter of 2025, 442 in second quarter and 676 in the third quarter.
He said that the command recorded 114 accidents in the first quarter, 95 in the second quarter and 89 in third quarter.
“We have a target of having 10 per cent reduction on RTC (Road Traffic Crashes) but so far, we have achieved 15.17 per cent, and this is a reduction compared with what we had last year,” he said.
On Driver’s License Violation (DLV), he said that the command recorded 888, 1,269 and 1,291 violations in the first, second and third quarters, all totalling 3,448.
Hamzat said that a total of 121,897 licences was produced in Lagos in the past nine months, adding that 51,267 were unclaimed.
“The number of licences produced in January was 16,293, February – 12,172; March – 7,139; April – 9,797; May – 13,915; June – 15,869; July – 17,751; August – 17,902; and September – 11,059,” he said.
Hamzat read Corps Marshal Shehu Mohammed’s speech at the occasion, saying that the theme reinforced the belief that human factor was a major cause of road accident.
“ It also draws attention to the fact that drivers are largely responsible for crashes on our highways.
“The 2024 Operation Zero ( Dec. 15, 2024 – Jan. 15, 2025) crash statistics reveals that 432 persons were killed and 2,070 persons were injured out of 533 reported cases of road crashes.
He added that the theme was carefully chosen to address road traffic infringements by drivers. (NAN)
