FRSC Recalls Bauchi Sector Commander, Abdullahi Over Outburst To Introduce Sharia Law

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has recalled the Bauchi state Sector Commander, Yusuf Abdullahi, for disciplinary action over his outburst and advocate to introduce Sharia law in road safety keeping operations.

The Sector Commander, had while addressing Journalists, Thursday, lamented on the increasing road crashes and the reluctance of drivers to keep safety rules, canvassed for introduction of Sharia laws to compel motorists to abide by safety rules.

According to him, “Let us introduce Sharia Law into road crashes, and people will wake up. Our people are too careless, and the vehicle owners don’t bother to check them. If we don’t introduce Sharia law, many road users, especially in this area, would not start thinking twice before doing whatever they want to do.

“The introduction of Sharia law will curtail bad behaviour, as most of the crashes are due to negative attitudes by motorists and other road users. People don’t want to take a rest. They speed because they want to make money.”

But the FRSC in a statement from its Headquarters Abuja, dissociated from the call, describing it as baseless and unfounded opinion”.

Further, it said “The public is to note that the entire statement does not in anyway, reflect the position of the Federal Road Safety Corps.

“The Corps Marshal, Dauda Ali Biu has recalled with immediate effect, the Sector Commander to the National Headquarters Abuja, for necessary administrative action because the Sector Commander through the quoted statements has breached the FRSC regulations and the Standard Operating Procedures”

“Without any reservation, it is key to inform the general public that the Federal Road Safety Corps is a Government Agency with statutory responsibilities for road safety administration in Nigeria and sensitive to the country’s multi-religious as well as heterogeneous ethnic composition.

“The Corps was founded through Decree No. 45, as amended by Decree 35 of 1992 referred to in the statute books as the FRSC Act cap 141 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria (LFN). The Act was passed by the National Assembly as Federal Road Safety Corps (establishment) Act 2007.

“By this very fact, it is important to clearly posit that the Corps is neither a religious nor sectional organisation, but a Federal Government Agency established with a mandate that is guided by the provisions of an establishment Act; and not a Sharia, Mosaic, customary, canon or any other law whatsoever that contradicts the provisions of it’s establishment Act, or the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“Our lead agency role is shielded in our strict compliance with established regulations duly passed by the National Assembly. As such, the public is humbly called to disregard the entire content of the opinion as published because it is outrightly baseless, unfounded and does not apply in our operations and service to the Nigerian people.”